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Re: Word used more than once

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 20, 2006, 20:58
Quoting João Ricardo de Mendonça <somnicorvus@...>:

> 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).
Unless I very much misunderstand, they also got most of their singulars from the accusative. Nom. sg. _filius_ ought've given **_hijos_ in Spanish, not _hijo_, which rather comes from acc. _filiu(m)_. Andreas

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