Re: [tied] Re: East Romance -i v. West Romance -s (was: Rom aia - A

aquila_grande wrote:

> Then the ending consonants s and t and m were lost inall verbal forms.
> This caused the 2.sg and 3.sg to be identical inn all forms of the
> declentions, exept the present of the 4.th declention that after this
> had the endings -o, -i, -e.
>
> Then the 2.sg ending of the 4.th decletion was analogically
> transformed to all 2.sg forms. Thus the defect caused by the consonant
> loss was repaired.
>
> This repair process is not complete in all Italian dialects, but is so
> in the Toscan dialect that forms the base for the written language.

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 see in many languages. More, the speakers are not
conscious about loosing the desinences and the use of the personal
pronoun is quiet an automatismus. Thus, following this explanation, we
have to assume someone was conscious the desinences begun to get wipped
out, so this one begun a work to re-establish them. And this of course a
idea which can work on the paper but is not practicable.

Alex




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