Re: Language universal?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 8, 2001, 23:56 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> There is no separate vocative forms for 2nd decl. masc. whose nominatives
> end in -(e)r
Well, I meant "... ending in -us"
> It was just about hanging on for a relatively small set of singular nouns,
> being kept on the life support machine by grammarians - pretty vestigial
> IMO.
I stand corrected, then.
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