Re: Number/Specificality/Archetypes in Language
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 21:36 |
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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.
-Stephen (Steg)
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