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From: na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:08:58 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sun, Nov 18 2012 10:08 am
Subject: Re: Singular "they" revisited
Nathan Sanders <sand...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
German doesn't have an equivalent of epicene "they".
> > Well, what I had in mind was this: Old English, as a proper [1] > > Germanic language, was unlikely to have epicene (equivalent of) > > "they", so epicene they must be newer than sticking strictly to > > grammatical number (as other Germanic languages still do). > Like German "sie" and "ihr"?
"Sie" (she, they) and "ihr" (her, their) are instances of syncretism.
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