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Re: English allative (was:Re: -s adverbs, bodoer Homo Sapiens (was: watered down fiery spirits)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Friday, October 24, 2003, 21:48
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
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Subject: English allative (was:Re: -s adverbs, bodoer Homo Sapiens (was:
watered down fiery spirits)


> The below post made me think of an ancient thread (which I'm to lazy to
dig up
> in the archives) about whether _-ward(s)_ could be seen as an allative
ending.
> The consensus was, IIRC, that it wasn't, because the suffix is restricted
to a
> few lexemes.
I seem to recall I started that thread. But it was around 2 or 3 years ago.