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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misanalyse .
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Examples
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Inanimate adjectives were declined with *-ám while animate adjectives were declined with *-ás until they were "misanalysed" by prehistoric speakers as vowel-ending stems with terminating consonantal endings, nominative *-s (e.g. *wĺ̥kʷo-s "wolf") and a (nomino-)accusative ending *-m (e.g. *yugó-m "yoke").
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Inanimate adjectives were declined with *-ám while animate adjectives were declined with *-ás until they were "misanalysed" by prehistoric speakers as vowel-ending stems with terminating consonantal endings, nominative *-s (e.g. *wĺ̥kʷo-s "wolf") and a (nomino-)accusative ending *-m (e.g. *yugó-m "yoke").
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The largest epidemiological study of MMR and autism was that conducted by Madsen et al in 2002, which was later criticised in the Cochrane review in 2005 because the data set was misanalysed (in such a way as to reduce the autistic vaccinated group):
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I suppose that in the end either word will do but I'm not suggesting that all genitives are misanalysed.
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I believe that in the midst of the Late IE period, these genitive-derived adjectives became misanalysed as thematic nominatives ending in *-z because this gives us a source of PIE's neuter thematic adjective in *-ó-m i.e. the genitive plural was reanalysed as a neuter thematic.
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I think what happened next was that, for whatever reason, bare stems were undesirable to speakers and that once former genitive-declined adjectives were misanalysed as thematic stems, this provided a means to "complete" the awkward wordform with an imaginary "inanimate nomino-accusative" pseudo-ending *-m.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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I think what happened next was that, for whatever reason, bare stems were undesirable to speakers and that once former genitive-declined adjectives were misanalysed as thematic stems, this provided a means to "complete" the awkward wordform with an imaginary "inanimate nomino-accusative" pseudo-ending *-m.
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Of course, if that were correct that would open up Pandora's box some more and further hint that thematic nouns were... drumroll, please... misanalysed genitival derivatives.
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