Re: -s -> -i

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

So after the -i spread to other conjugations, it was found not to be
good enough in the conjugation it came from? Hm! But your proposal
doesn't explain that after all this reshuffle in Romance, somehow
West Romance ends up with all the -s'es and East Romance with the
vowels.

Torsten