Re: [tied] Re: final -s, IE

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:43:48 -0300, Joao
<josimo70@...> wrote:

>In Romance there is not a real s-drop: Romance languages abbandoned the nominative -s, and adopted accusative -m. The real s-ending are seen in Accusative Plural, e.g. Latin caballo:s, Portuguese/Spanish cavalos, French chevaux (<chevals). In Italian -s>-i (caballo:s>caballoi>caballi), and in French almost all final consonants are dropped.

The -s was lost in Eastern Romance (except in
monosyllables). The -i of It. cavalli continues the Latin
nom.pl. in -i:.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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