Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

> Glen might want fifty examples (and once he gets them, he'll want
> seventy); Popper needs only one example to falsify a claim that such
> an alternation doesn't exist anywhere. Let's just restrict ourselves
> to Swedish: older Swedish still has 'dem' (oblique; presumably
> alternating with unstressed 'd&m'); modern Swedish has 'dom'
> (nominative and oblique; presumably still alternating with
> unstressed 'd&m'; my Sprachgefühl is shaky here).

My Swedish Sprachgefuhl says I never pronounce dom with a schwa
even in unstressed positions (it's shot [o] all the time). I don't know
any dialects that do either.

best wishes,

Harald