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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4639 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 25 of 26 29 October 2013 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Does anyone have access to an Old English grammar? I mean, it's "the same" -m in him, honom, ham etc. |
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In Old English, the paradigms are hē (N), hine (A), his (G), him (D) for "he/him" and hēo (N), hīe (A), hire (G), hire (D) for "she/her". So the old dative forms became the standard for the object pronouns in English, too. I guess the reason for this might be the fact that they look more different from the nominative than the accusative forms.
That's why I also think that "han" as an object pronoun in Norwegian might rather be an Old Norse relic preserved in some dialects than a grammatical error. Of course, after "ham" became the standard, the usage of "han" as a direct object was bound to sound wrong, but historically it might even be the more correct version.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5248 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 26 of 26 29 October 2013 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
HE and
SHE:
Bm:
han (object: han or ham)
hun (object: henne)
Ny:
han (object: han)
ho (object: ho or henne)
I guess the objects HENNE in Nynorsk and HAN in Bokmål are results of the samnorsk policy of yesteryear.
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"Ho" as object pronoun in Nynorsk was introduced in 1917.
http://sprakradet.no/upload/nyno02rev.pdf
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