Russian grammatical questions: Alaska and Hawaii

[Martin Votruba]

> Perhaps rivers are less prone to this than towns because
> there is no classical model (that I can think of)?

More likely because there are native Russian plural names of settlements,
but no name of a river occurs in the plural.


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu

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