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

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> 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'm not sure if this strengthens your argument or not, but I think I
generally almost only say things like 'forwards' and 'backwards' (rather
than 'forward' and 'backward'), but do add -ward(s) to just about any
noun (i.e. 'forward' I don't use, but 'bedward' I would, and probably
more frequently than 'bedwards', though if there's a difference of
meaning I'm unable to put my finger on it).

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