Re: Suppletory forms
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 19, 1999, 17:24 |
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Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> In the spoken German of the south (and, I believe, Austria) this form,
> which was originally a perfect, is now used as a preterite, the "official"
> preterite being reserved there for the literary language.
I believe this has spread to all German-speaking areas now.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)