Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

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

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>
> If that is the corpus of Old Dutch monosyllable plurals, then 16.7%
> has plural -s .
>

Gosh! You didn't say you wanted the entire corpus! My mistake - can I
refer you to the Corpus Oudnederlands, one of the INL projects
(http://www.inl.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=349&Itemid=504)?
I'm sure whatever answer you come up with yourself will be most
acceptable to you ;)

> You didn't dwell on the subject of Mnl, of which neither of us knew
> much until I spent half an hour with Google on it, but skipped on to a
> subject about which you could lift a paragraph out of a textbook and
> which is peripheral to the question of the provenance of the so
> successful s-plural in Germanic
>
> Well, what I wrote there was meant to be a supplement, I was not
> trying to change the subject.

I see - Torsten supplements, other people change the subject :D
An a matter of fact what I wrote isn't lifted out of a textbook, but
no problem.

> And how do you feel yourself you're doing?

Very well, thank you; and yourself? I have to admit that had I known
this would be so entertaining, I would have joined ages ago.

> I am pleased to inform you that it didn't surprise me.
>

Your pleasure is mine.

Regards,
Malgorzata