[tied] Re: Accusative was allative

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:
> > > "news" to an English speaker is a plural
> >
> > No. Historically it was a plural adjective, but today it is
> > most definitely a singular noun:
> >
> > The news is bad.
> > *The news are bad.
> >
> Right. Mea culpa.
>

But, come to think of it, perhaps those (British?) linguists that
have identified it as an adjective in the plural were wrong and it
was actually in the gen.sg.? Another example: German 'Neues' is felt
by the natives (I think) to be a nom.acc. neuter, but that might also
be an old genetive. Anyway I think my idea stands: there is a path
from genitive to nominative.

Torsten