Re: English Construct State/Future Arabic
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 17, 2002, 5:11 |
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"Anthony M. Miles" wrote:
>
> 1)
> I was trying to construct a future variety of English, and I wondered:
> given the English speaker's tendency to slur the preposition 'of',
> would the development of an English construct state be likely?
> Sample:
> haus
> hausV
> hauz@z
> hauz@zV
Seems not improbable to me. Altho, I'd be more likely to posit the
preposition becoming a prefix. At any rate, it seems to me that it
would be unstable, having a tendency to be completely dropped.
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