[tied] Vocative [Re: yellow]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:31:03 -0000, "tolgs001 <gs001ns@...>"
> > <gs001ns@...> wrote:
> >
> >> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Of the cases, the vocative was lost
> >>
> >> but the vocative is still extant in Romanian,
> >> isn't it?
> >
> > In view of the feminine vocative -o, I think it more likely that

the

> > vocative was lost as everywhere else in Romance, and was

reintroduced

> > from Slavic
> >
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

All right

What about the neutrum.

In Italian the neutrum has not disappared completely, even though it
is not called so in italian grammars. ex: ouvo - ouva egg, muro-
mura wall, braccio - braccia arm.

Rumenian still has a neutrum, but is this reintrodused in some way?

> > mcv@...
> >
>
> It can be a possiblity. And the rest of vocatives

in "a", "lor", "i",

> "e" was rediscovered, or how?