Re: Number/Specificality/Archetypes in Language

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:46:40 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2004, at 10:00 PM, John Cowan wrote:
>> My point was that names can take inflectional morphology, but can also
>> have things inside the name that look like inflectional morphology
>> (and perhaps once were) but aren't, synchronically.  Historically,
>> "the Bronx" and "Yonkers" contain plural morphemes, but now they
>> always take singular agreement, e.g.
>
> What're the etymologies, then?  I thought the Bronx is named after the
> Bronx River, a singular noun.  No idea about Yonkers though, but then
> again i don't think i've ever been there.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx Bronx is for "Bronck's farms".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers hasn't got details but it does appear to be named after a Jonkheer.



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