Re: [tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:31:26 +0100, altamix <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>The rom. verbal desinences are allways the same, the quality of the
>vowel in infinitive being the one who has an influence on the vowels in
>derivation. AS I once pointed out, this conjugation is not just as one
>of the IV latin conjugations but the same as in Lithuanian as well.

And if I recall, I pointed out the gross mistakes in your argument at the
time.

>What should be so special Latin here, just God knows.

Almost everything in the Romanian conjugations points to Latin and Latin
alone. What other IE language has an e:-subjunctive for a:-stems, and an
a:-subjunctive for all other stems? What other language has a present ptc.
(gerund) in -nd-? What other language has verbal forms (pqpf.conj.) in
-assem, etc. What other language mixes s-aorists with true perfects? And so
on, and so forth.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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