[tied] Re: Verner's Law (Germanic)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2006-05-06 12:01, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > N1-<es(j)o> N2 is actually N1 es(j)o N2; 'N1's N2' is 'N1

his/its

> > N2' as in Norwegian and Dutch today.
>
> The possibility of such an analysis may have facilitated the

confusion

> between the nominal and pronominal endings (cf. also the

reanalysis of

> <Johnes> 'John's' as <John his> in Early Modern English, which
> demonstrates that such a thing could have happened at different

times in

> different Germanic languages).

My point was that such a reanalysis can't be done in Dutch or
Norwegian or Jysk, where nonetheless that type of genitive
constructions also appears. That makes it less likely that
reanalysis is the source of that genitive construction in English.
Substrate?


Torsten