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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> From: <celteuskara@...>
>
>
> > I use it for both aspects, and even in normal nouns "You can't
get
> > sumthin for nothin"
>
> But in some Englishes buildin' (pres.part., gerund and noun alike)
contrasts with sumthink, nothink and anythink. The origin of
pres.part. -ing is still a bit unclear in detail, but it goes without
saying that at some point -end and -ing fell together, and a
pronunciation like modern [-In] or [-&n] is a likely neutralisation
point for the two (despite the fact that the explicit spelling <-in'>
for <-ing> was not common before the 18th century.
>
> Piotr
(Rephrased:) But are there Englishes that stil distinguish verbal
suffixes [-In] and [-In,] according to grammatical function?
Torsten