On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:59:19 -0000, "tgpedersen" <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>These are all nice examples of -Vs > -Vi. But what about the East
>Romance 2sg -i, also after -C-? -ai > -i, etc?
It's not lautgesetzlich. -s after unaccented vowel becomes zero in East
Romance. This would have given the following paradigms in the present;
a:-stems C-stems e:-stems i:-stems
-o -o -io -io
-a -e -e -i
-a -e -e -e
-amo -emo -emo -imo
-ate -ete -ete -ite
-an -on -en -en
The only conjugation with a distinctive 2sg. was that of the i:-stems. From
there, 2sg. -i spread to the other conjugations (even as the i-stem 2sg. itself
tended to be replaced by incohative -isci).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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