Re: [tied] Erosion of Latin -us into Romance (was: Nominative Loss.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Just that a loss of *-r in daughter languages at the end
> of *pxte:r may not be a simple sound change but rather based
> on the morphological or even sandhi context which in some way
> favoured this loss despite its expected preservation based on
> our knowledge of sound changes alone. It was in response
> to Jens' question of "where else do you find such a loss?"
> to support his **pxte: idea.

The reconstruction of a variant without *-r is not my "idea", but a
result of painstaking scholarship of long standing. The result,
preliminary as it is, was reached over a century ago, and nothing
has been put forward since to change the situation in any serious
way.

Jens