Re: Wenedyk - Adjectives
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 16:17 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> Are you
> sure they had already vanished from spoken language that early? It seems to me
> that some remnants of particularly the superlative forms survived in Italian
> ("bellissima!")
Those are learned forms, restored from the classical language. Note that
they are not really superlative, but rather emphatic. IIRC Romanian lacks them.
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