Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 16:58 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
>
> > > One of those things I don't really understand how they
> > > could happen (as well as the overuse of the /-s/ morphophoneme).
> >
> > What "overuse" are you referring to?
>
>Presumably the fact that it is overloaded to mean the plural of nouns
>and the 3sg of verbs.
Yes, that's what I meant. And add the genitive to that; that's two important
grammatic functions and one slightly less important, all put into the same
morphophoneme.
Oskar
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