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Hi!
Peter Collier writes:
>...
> Henrik, any suggestions from the land of the frozen vines?
Do you mean Þrjótur or Germany? :-)
Anyway, as a first attempt to resolve your problem, I could think of:
- a shift s > z > r (I like that). Would be interfering with your
GMP, I suppose, so this probably does not help much...
- finding analogies in the declensions to make the combination
article + noun unique again -- if there is any plausible way to
explain this (in German, it is interesting that the plural of
feminine nouns is always different from the singular, while
in maskuline and neuter, it is not -- what a coincidence:
in the feminine, the articles in sg and pl coincide in
nom, acc, and gen.),
- ignoring the problem and just declare it a feature
(Icelandic's -a,-u declension of feminines has this
in gen,acc,dat, though the article *is* distinguished,
so only indefinite noun phrases are underspecified),
- dropping dative case altogether as quite some Germanic
languages did.
**Henrik