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MrPedantic wrote It interests me that some modern languages have at least the appearance of greater simplicity e g the loss of inflection than their counterparts of 900 years ago This seems counter intuitive you would expect a language to evolve towards not from complexity Hello MrPAs far as...

Pemmican wrote Why do you disagree milky Btw Why is it called Saxon Genitive Does anyone know Becuse it is the only noun inflection surviving from Old English or Anglo Saxon Sorry there is one more the plural s Inchoateknowledge

Pemmican wrote The s is the most common suffix left in English by now it took over several functions a plural indicator one apple two apples b 3rd ps sg inflection indicator sing he sings c genitive ending Jon s house In my opinion the s in b will certainly disappear sometime it was already...

korin said Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only s plural nouns 3rd person singular verbs and saxon genitive in modern English English has become a rather analytic lg where most of the syntactic relations within a...

The s is the most common suffix left in English by now it took over several functions a plural indicator one apple two apples b 3rd ps sg inflection indicator sing he sings c genitive ending Jon s house In my opinion the s in b will certainly disappear sometime it was already mentioned that it is...

I do not claim that the plural ending s will definitely disappear However looking at the direction the English language is heading the disappearance would come as no surprise Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only...

I do not claim that the plural ending s will definitely disappear However looking at the direction the English language is heading the disappearance would come as no surprise Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only...

Hello MrP Thanks for the reply I am lucky I get an confirmation directly from a native speaker to that I had better not say I m a Japanese though I feel somewhat like unhappiness in your way of discriminating the suffices an and ese By the way I feel the word Japaneses is much better than the...

Miriam Many thanks for your thoughtful expansion of Pem s analysis I ll first address the specific questions you ve raised then re state more thoroughly the case which the Cambridge book is making for the gerund s redefinition Consider the following two sentences 1 I can t stand your being here 2...