Re: [tied] Romanian Development of /st/ (was: Against ... 'Albanian

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

> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:08:33 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
> >Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> >> Stressed /E/ never occurred in final position.
> >>
> >
> >Even if in Latin there was not in the final position in Rom. (

dues loose

> >of -re) it became in final position.
> >thus: salire > sãri > sãi.
>
> But since there are no infinitives in */-Ere/, that is again wholly
> irrelevant.

Note that Miguel means after the merger of unstressed /e/ and /E/,
as /e/. He isn't saying Latin didn't have an infinitive -/ere/ (as
opposed to -/e:re/), he is simply that the stress was on the
previous syllable.

Is there a good on-line source we can refer Alex to for Latin
conjugation? I was going to refer him to Orbis Latinus, but that
doesn't show vowel length. I put together a note on the vowel
lengths, but the whole was lost because I lost the internet
connection before I pressed 'post'. I couldn't bring myself to
rewrite the note.

Richard.