Zompist Bboard Again

Gradual assimilation happened in England too, Ok, let's put it this way: General question for everyone: to which extent is gradual assimilation happening where you live? To which extent has it happened there recently? I am originally from around Heilbronn, which today lies directly on the border be...

*) Question – what is more likely to be used, the Latin loan or the native coinages? In German, you’ll find the native coinages ( Fürwort, Bindewort ) in school contexts and popular texts (like style guides), but the Latin loans ( Pronomen, Konjunktion ) in university contexts or linguistic texts. ...

German in that context just says die Hochzeit von dir und ihm, as long as it is just one wedding.
Deine und seine Hochzeit would imply two separate weddings.

*) Question – what is more likely to be used, the Latin loan or the native coinages? In German, you’ll find the native coinages ( Fürwort, Bindewort ) in school contexts and popular texts (like style guides), but the Latin loans ( Pronomen, Konjunktion ) in university contexts or linguistic texts. ...

Ser wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:55 am ...

Thanks for the detailed answer! Especially what you said about object raising à la te puedo ver makes sense, thinking about it. In the end that looks like traditional clitic linearization, just with some locality constraint.

I did not know either that that isn't a thing in French.

Generally speaking, are there any actual reasons why the pronominal object markers in Romance languages are so often called clitics and not affixes, if not for orthographic reasons only? A morpheme that always attaches to the same host looks quite like an affix to me.

In fact, Wikipedia calls it a " Berliner Pfannkuchen ". That's what "Berliner" is shortened from. In parts of the eastern US, pączki are called fasnachts . This is a shortening of a southern German/Austrian dialect form (viz. SW German Fastnachtsküchle ). Interesting! Swabian Fa...

In German, a filled doughnut without a hole (like a Polish pączek) is usually called a Berliner. Except in Berlin, where it is called a Pfannkuchen. Outside of Berlin that is a pancake, while actual pancakes are called Eierkuchen egg cakes in Berlin.

Russian too. I think it was pan-Slavic at some point but that many of the other Slavic languages added person markers later on. No, it's the other way round, Russian and Ukrainian lost the markers. As äreo says, it originally was a periphrastic perfect formed from the perfect active participle and ...