Re: Genders (Forgive me for this :) )
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 10, 2000, 0:36 |
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Patrick Dunn wrote:
> Well, I'm not a linguist, but I seem to recall my OE teacher mentioning
> that when French and OE (both of which are gendered) met, the genders
> didn't always agree so they were often dropped.
No. French had little influence on English grammar. Besides which,
IIRC, some form of gender survived into the late Middle English period,
and number agreement on adjectives survived until near the very end,
FWIR.
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