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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: -sk
Message-ID: <CyJLIE.C4H@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <aldersonCy8rwA.GuL@netcom.com) <38umdj$clh@gordon.enea.se> <30OCT94.15199559.0031@music.mus.polymtl.ca>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:56:36 GMT
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In article <30OCT94.15199559.0031@music.mus.polymtl.ca> Alexander Kiefer <KA00@music.mus.polymtl.ca> writes:
>The question whether -sko is related to -ski is ill posed.

So it is.

>In Slavic lang. the endings (I think them to be ablative)

Ablative?  What do you mean?

>are for different genders:
>                      masc.   -ski
>                      fem.    -ska
>                      neut.   -ske

<puzzled>  Which Slavic language does this paradigm come from?

>Beside of them exists also -sko.
>The -sko is neutral and is used to denote the place of origin.

<more puzzled>  Again, which Slavic language are you talking about?
and what place of origin?

The derivational suffix (shared by all Slavic languages and possibly
related to a certain Germanic suffix) is simply _-sk-_.  What follows
is an inflexional suffix of the general form _-V1(jV2)(C(V3))_, which
has little if anything to do with the stem, _-sk-_ and all, and whose
precise form depends on the language and expresses a lot of stuff,
namely, gender and number and possibly case and/or definiteness.

So disregard the ending and compare the Slavic _-sk-_ to the Germanic one.

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