Re: [tied] Pronoun

From: m_iacomi
Message: 22082
Date: 2003-05-18

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>>> What do you have to look for here with the personal pronoun? We
>>> have spoked about the demonstrative pronoun
>>
>> Same thing.
>
> I will ask David how to get from illa an "u" or "o" ( not on the
> paper, but for real:-))

You may ask whomever you want. If it's about linguistics, the most
relevant asnwers you'll got from competent persons in this field.

>> Don't be ridiculous. The ending of the masc. article is -l, the
>> -u is originally part of the noun.
>>
>> lupu(m) > lupu > lup
>> lupu(m) illu(m) > lupu-lu > lupul > /lupu/
>
> ach was!
> lupu +illu > lupillu > lupil but not lupul
> lupu +ollu > lupollu > lupulu
> ( remember the texts from the VIII century with "casa lupuli")

So what's the importance of those texts for Romanian (deriving
from Balkan Romance)?!

> I guess your alone problem is that historicaly the facts do not
> fit; phoneticaly they do.

There is only one person with a problem, and that's you not being
able to understand some written texts.

Marius Iacomi