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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> This is not ex-Fennic Slavic-learners creolically regularizing a
> confusing (to them) paradigm?
No, it is not *in a general sense* about regularizing paradigms. The
reasoning starts from the specific expectations you have as a speaker
of Finnic given the structure of your own case system faced with the
specific structure of the Slavic case system at a specific stage just
after the loss of word-final *s. And yes, I'm convinced that we are
entitled to take such things into account, particularly if they help to
account in a straightforward way for a problem that leaves everybody
else baffled. I suggest you read the original publications (which give
alternative interpretations and devote attention to all kinds of
details and minor complications), then we can talk. ;)
W.