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		whlr on April 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017) Not a linguist, but I think this is just a matter of proto-indo-european having complicated morphology and its descendants reverting to the mean. A related reddit thread (I know, I know, sorry): https://old.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/o12hy0/instanc... It's worth noting of course that there is more to grammar than morphology.

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