On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:41:03 +0200, alex_lycos <
altamix@...>
wrote:
>Well.... there are several scholars which admit the structure of
>Romanian is not the Latin one.
Romanian is a typical Romance language. In its nominal morphology, it
stands rather closer to Latin than any other modern Romance language,
having preserved an oblique case (dative/genitive) and having
reintroduced a vocative. The verbal morphology is standard Romance,
with preservation of the Latin a, i, e and C-styems, a present,
subjunctive, imperfect, sipmle perfect, pluperfect, perfect
subjunctive (in Macedo-Romanian), imperative, gerundive, perfect
participle, and a periphrastic perfect made with the verb "to be".
The only thing setting Romanian apart is the periphrastic future,
which is made with "to want" rather than "to have".
>For the phonology there are rules and
>rules.
Your inability to comprehend and apply the rules does not alter the
fact that Romanian historical phonology is quite straightforward.
Only a small number of simple rules is required to derive the Romanian
from the Vulgar Latin forms. The rules for Romanian are I'd say an
order of magnitude less complex than the rules we need to derive
Modern French from Vulgar Latin.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...