
Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)
The History of English Podcast
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Indo European Grammar
The original indo european language not only had different noun form s for singular and plural, but it also had a third tense for duality. In addition to number, inda european nouns had eight separate cases depending on how it was used in the sentence. The way you tell which one is the subject or the object is which inflection or which ending it has.
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