Russian rules, Czech geography

Martin Votruba votruba+ at PITT.EDU
Sun Sep 16 15:58:49 UTC 2007


> On the other hand, we do see the Poles decline "w Nowym
> Jorku"....

The Russians decline it, too -- [v n~ju jorke].  Francoise asked 
about the foreign place names ending in -o, which should not be 
declined according to normative grammars.


Martin

votruba "t" pitt "dot" edu

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