tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post95163249363971522..comments2024-03-23T01:31:13.502+01:00Comments on Jabal al-Lughat: The Subclassification of Songhay, now onlineLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-36007056391612351412014-06-21T23:46:35.598+02:002014-06-21T23:46:35.598+02:00Darn! I could have sworn I had fixed that before ...Darn! I could have sworn I had fixed that before publication after checking Wikipedia, but evidently not. It should of course have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rter_und_Sachen" rel="nofollow">Wörter und Sachen</a>. Thanks for pointing that out.Lameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-68867697053250300862014-06-21T19:58:52.559+02:002014-06-21T19:58:52.559+02:00As far as I can tell, this is a great work!
The o...As far as I can tell, this is a great work!<br /><br />The one part I'm qualified to comment on is the section headline "Worten und Sachen". German <i>Wort</i> has two plurals, <i>Worte</i> (nom./gen./acc.) ~ <i>Worten</i> (dat.) and <i>Wörter</i> (nom./gen./acc.) ~ <i>Wörtern</i>. Prescriptively, the difference is that <i>Wörter</i> refers to literal words while <i>Worte</i> means sayings or verses that consist of several literal words; in practice, <i>Worte</i> appears to be northern and <i>Wörter</i> southern. So, in any case, you picked the dative, and at least from a prescriptive point of view you picked the wrong plural.<br /><br />The dative is of course appropriate with certain prepositions: <i>Von Worten/Wörtern und Sachen</i> would mean "of words and things". Is that where you took it from?<br /><br /><i>Sache</i> (feminine) belongs to a different declension class than <i>Wort</i> (neuter), so its plural is <i>Sachen</i> in all four cases. German has <b>very</b> few distinct endings for a lot of morphological functions.David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-53769760974789664752014-06-12T15:29:24.424+02:002014-06-12T15:29:24.424+02:00Ooh, awesome! I'll read it ASAP.Ooh, awesome! I'll read it ASAP.David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.com