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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> Yes, but remember the 'excesses' of carrying over -s > -i to 2nd sg.
> happened in East Romance, not West. The French kept the inherited
> 2nd sg. -s, since they had no particular reason to shift.
Torsten
phonologicaly a "s" cannot become an "i", at least not in Romanian;
thus there is no "carrying over in excess" of an questionable "s" but
there are other reasons for having the "-i" in 2-sg and 2-pl and in
plural of all genders
Alex