... The only thing I can add to this excellently reported story is that the addition of the <g> has produced a folk-etymological connection with Greek...
... for me, a desinence should be different from the infinitive form of the verb. The 3 sg and 3 pl "desinences" is the in fact the same vowel as the last...
... the >> verb ( in the languages which still keep them fully) allows to ... I will like if something more will be developed on this matter. I wonder if the...
... Never known about that, but it's quite obvious and convincing once you've seen it. Until this morning I'd managed to miss the association with "music"...
... sg. ... but ... It is precisely because I thought it was suspect that a -s should have become an -i that I proposed that the change wasn't phonological,...
... Apophonic variation in a heteroclitic noun? ... cf. ... Those are the examples I found in the American Heritage Dictionary. Are there other examples? ...
... From: altamix<mailto:alxmoeller@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:36 AM Subject:...
... Not true. 1. There are other situations when we have same endings and nobody care: In Romanian we have 'El cântã' 'Ei cântã' ...and no spreading ...
... Yes. *pah2wr./*ph2wen-/*p(a)h2wo:r/*ph2un-, etc. ... I though _I_ gave those examples ;), and I didn't get them from the AHG, which, to my knowledge,...
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... hypercorrection from what, to what, in which conditions, by which people? Alex -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. ...
... present your idea about PIE *z as the nominative marker, and in s- aorists? This is the first I've heard of a novel but intriguing theory, and I would...
... I am afraid there are a lot of doubts. Italian has the "i" in Imperative 2 sg as well which coincide with the 2-sg indicative. And it makse sense somehow...
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:19:52 +0000, alexandru_mg3 ... Yes, of course. So what? ... Where did you get that ridiculous "2000 years" from? ... Not at all....
... Latin "u" never becomes "o" in Rom. Apud Rosetti "in Rom., Sard., Italian dialects of the South, Albanian, "u" conserved his tonality and "o" and "o:"...
... I have a question here Miguel. Why was there a need to maintain a difference between conjugations? Alex -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked...
As far as I remember to have read, the i-endings of Italian verbs has the following history. In the 4.th declention the latin endings -o:, i:s, it bacame -o,...
... The dissaperance of the desinences is fine conterbalanced by the use of the personal pronoun. If the dessinences are gone, there is no big problem as we...
... today we use this order in interrogations too, don't we? In English it doesn't work very properly but in other languages it works: "welches Buch habe ich?"...
... consonant ... Aquila this argument is not sufficient. As I already asked Miguel: Why the English people didn't try "to repair" I go, you go, we go, Why the...
... use of ... explanation, we ... wipped ... course a ... I do not believe in the doctrine that the use of grammar by every day speach is totally unconscious....
... As I already shows to Miguel and Aquila there isn't any "General Need"...to maintain this differences... Otherwise Miguel will be obliged to declare...
... Why ... the ... the ... to ... the ... and to ... of "some ... the ... The answar is easy. When loss of distinctive features get too toublesome, a reaction...
... incidentaly several other languages from different language-groups have the -i for the 2-sg. coincidence? Alex -- No virus found in this outgoing message. ...
... of course there is not an automatismus in Italian because the desinences are present. It :io posso, tu puoi, lui puo, noi possiamo, voi potete, loro...
... the ... to ... In Italian, this reparation was needed or at least wanted, because. -As a rule unstressed subject pronouns is not used. Adding such pronouns...
I. "-nt became -n in Italian and Romanian, and final -n was lost in Romanian (cf. aeramen > aramã)." The Romanian timeframes and evolutions that you described...
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