Re: [tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for Crãciun]

At 6:11:00 AM on Tuesday, January 6, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

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

>> The elimination of case forms was a prolonged and gradual
>> process in Bulgarian, just as in English. It began about
>> 1100 and reached completion about 1400.

> It is not "prolonged and gradual" in the speech of the
> individual speaker. Cases either are there or they aren't.

Not true, unless you're talking about a single token. A
speaker may use inflexional forms on some occasions and not
others, with different percentages of use and non-use for
different speakers (and for that matter for a single speaker
in different social contexts).

Brian