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Re: 1st person vocative (was: Language universal?)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Saturday, February 17, 2001, 13:17
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
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> type of thing, and I've never heard of a language that actually had verb > forms for 1st person *singular*, so the plural would fill in. But I could > be completely wrong.
On the contrary, classical Greek (and I think modern Greek still) has 1st person singular verb forms. In fact, that is the dictionary form for verbs :-) T -- Fact is stranger than fiction.