| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> | 
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| Date: | Thursday, January 13, 2005, 14:46 | 
Doug Dee wrote:> Come to think of it, there are also some Old French nouns that have a > different stem in the Nom sg. vs. other forms: > > Nom sg li ber > obl sg le baron > nom pl. li baron > obl pl les barons > > Perhaps Frankish could retain the stem alternation even though the -scomes> to mark plural only.Surely it could! I would expect levelling of the paradigms in different numbers, but preservation of different stems in sn & pl. -- Yitzik