Re: Feminization of plurals?

2009/2/12 Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets <tsela.cg@...>

> Interesting. I didn't notice this from my husband's dialect (South-Eastern
> Brabandish), I will have to pay more attention next time he talks to people
> from his family (alone with me he only speaks standard Dutch) and see if I
> can spot something similar.
>
> Or maybe just listen more often to songs from Gerard van Maasakkers, whose
> dialect is for all intents and purposes identical to the one my husband was
> brought up with.
>
With South-Western Brabant I mean the South-West of Flemish Brabant in
Belgium. The South-West of the Brabandish dialects. :-)

Funny, that's a feature of standard Castillan Spanish (with the preposition
> "a"). I've heard that indirection of animate direct objects is actually a
> common phenomenon, even in accusative languages, but I only knew the
> Spanish
> case.

Indeed, I've heard the same about Spanish.

Greets
David


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