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From: Adam Funk
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Somewheres
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:33:11 +0100
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On 2024-09-02, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> The -ing suffix in Modern English is a fusion of two Old English
>> suffixes, one similar to German -ung & the other to German -end. I'm
>> not sure of the extent to which that encouraged the development of the
>> current -in'/-ing situation.
>
> One might add that the -ung is a suffix that substantivates a verb,
> while the -end makes the verbform present particip. There are parallels
> in Danish where we have -(n)ing and -ende.
I'm not surprised. I think (but am open to correction) that English is
the only Germanic language that has merged them.
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