[Ads-l] "Anglench"?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 26 00:47:58 UTC 2015
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
> singular or plural, *were* grammatical in this position, it would be
> contracted
>
Only singular, right? In "les enfants," there would be resyllabification of
-s, but not contraction of "les."
-Wilson
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