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Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)

From:Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
Date:Monday, June 19, 2000, 16:58
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 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com