Re: Word used more than once
| From: | João Ricardo de Mendonça <somnicorvus@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 20, 2006, 20:48 |
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On 5/20/06, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
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> 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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