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Re: Word used more than once

From:João Ricardo de Mendonça <somnicorvus@...>
Date:Saturday, May 20, 2006, 20:48
On 5/20/06, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> > Probably for the same reason Standard English lost the historic > nominative "ye", preserving the object "you". And, for that reason, why > some dialects use "them" instead of "they" or "me" instead of "I" and so > on. The object form seems to be the one to win out when case is lost in > English pronouns. >
Like Western Romance languages, which take their plural forms from the Latin accusative. So Latin filias (acc.) gave Spanish hijas and Portuguese filhas (no case).

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