Re: [tied] house and city

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:43:35 +0100, "anabel martin"
<etiamsitaceant@...> wrote:

>in hassaniya (a arabic language!> this can come from a contact) the marks of person (in singular and plural) are:
>1: m/n (it depends on the context dental/-dental)
>2: t
>3: 0
>these forms can appear as prefix or sufix.

I don't know about Hassaniya, but in Classical Arabic the verbal
suffixes are:

perfective: imperfective:
1. -tu ?a-
2m. -ta ta-
2f. -ti
3m. -a ya-
3f. -at ta-

1p. -na: na-
2pm. -tum ta-
2pf. -tunna
3pm. -u: ya-
3pf. -na

In modern Colloquial Arabic dialects, these paradigms are usually
preserved, except for the loss of final vowels, and the use of n- for
the imperfective 1p. singular. E.g. Maltese has:

pf. impf.
1. -t n-
2. -t t-
3m. -0 j-
3f. -et t-
1p. -na n-
2p. -tu t-
3p. -u j-

>It seems to me too that in japanese the old form of the three first persons was:
>1sg: *-mi
>2sg: *-si
>3sg: *-ti
>but I have received this notice indirectly and I can't be sure.
>can anyone help me?

There was OJap. <mi> ~ <wanu> "I" and <si> ~ <söne> "you". I don't
think there was a 3rd. p. <ti>.


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