From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 53503
Date: 2008-02-17
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>And that disproves your theory.
>wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:24:38 -0000, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>>
>> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Sure they do. I've seen explanations of Italian -ai <
>> >> -as
>> >> that roughly give
>> >> -as
>> >> -ah
>> >> -ay
>> >> Think of French chanterais
>> >>
>> >
>> >This is my version:
>> >Case breaks down in Romance. Some dimwits use nom. (-i, -ae > -e)
>> >in the pl. for all cases, other dimwits use acc. (-os, -as). The
>> >choice between those form becomes shibbolethized, so that using
>> >2.sg. -Vs etc is bad for you. It becomes replaced with -i.
>>
>> Except that this is falsified by the facts.
>
>> The nominative-accusative distinction (Nom -os, Acc. -o; pl. Nom -i,
>> Acc -os) survived in areas where final -s was not regularly lost,
>> and is abundantly attested in Old French and Old Occitan.
>
>OK. And?