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Re: A Franco-Turkic a posteriori language

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
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 -s
comes
> 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