From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 08:00:26 EST
--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> Still, there's nothing wrong with having some grammatical forms of purely
> learne`d origin. The Russian present participle is a borrowing from
> Church Slavonic, e.g., and many Burmese constructions, including ones now
> in colloquial use, are borrowed wholesale from Pali. There is a disputed
> claim that the English accusative and infinitive ("I want him to go")
> came into the language direct from Latin at the revival of learning.
Hm, an interesting thing to consider. Yet, I think this would rather happen in
the form of certain grammatical constructions. Or, perhaps, in the form of an
perfect active participle.
Jan
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