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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2008.06.02 (05) [E]

From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com <mailto:sassisch at yahoo.com>>

> Subject: Morphology
>
> Hi again, Ívison /et al./!
>
> I've come to demonstrate the eating of both crows and humble pies.
>
> A very kind and discrete private message of one of my favorite Danish
> Lowlanders (/og tak ska' Du ha'/) pointed out that my information about the
> definite article in Western Jutish was incorrect. My (h)umble apologies! I
> went back to my notes, but they are old and I don't remember what I based
> them on (if on anything other than occasional fancy flights of my enfeebled
> mind). Then I checked other sources and found that what I wrote was indeed
> wrong. I hope I got it right now.
>
> Real Western Jutish does not distinguish genders and uses only what in
> other varieties is the common gender (/fælleskøn/). So here is a revision
>
Wikipedia has a map about the distribution of number of genders and about
the distribution of the position of the article: <
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billede:Denmark-gender.png>.

Marcus Buck
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