Re: R: Re: erg/abs; verbs.
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 16, 2000, 20:05 |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Mangiat wrote:
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> >*Every* Indoeuropean language uses those endings:
> >Latin has NOM lupus ACC lupum
> >Greek has NOM kalòs ACC kalòn < *kalòm
> >Sanskrit the same and so on.
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> Every? This one doesn't. ;)
>
Sure it does: him, them. Historically these are datives (NHG ihm vs. ihn),
but then the Germanic dative got reborn from the acc. after the old dative died.
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