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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
wrote:

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> tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> How about this:
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> N1- N2 is actually N1 es(j)o N2; 'N1's N2' is 'N1 his/its
> N2' as in Norwegian and Dutch today.
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> Torsten
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> I find it funny that you have suggested this, since it is
>identical to the reason why English spells its genitive singular
>with an apostrophe before the s: it was held to be a reduced form
>of his, e.g. "The King's English" was held to actually stand
>for "The King his English".

Not really. My idea was that went back to at least Proto-Germanic.

>But I believe most scholars have rejected this idea,

Please mention one scholar who has considered the idea for Proto-
Germanic and rejected it.

>and believe that the apostrophe-s is the modern reflex of the Old
>English genitive singular ending -es.

And the latter was the one we were debating, not the former.

>I could be wrong, however.

Torsten