Re: [tied] Romanian Verb Endings and Substratum influence (repost)

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

> >Miguel Carrasquer wrote:


> >there is no 3 pl. in Rom. either;
>
> Yes there is. The form is usually identical to the 3rd.sg.
> in a:-verbs, and to the 1sg. in the other verbs in the
> present tense, to the 3rd.sg. in the present subjunctive,
> but it has independent forms in the imperfect (-(e)au) and
> the preterite (-Vrã).

for me, a desinence should be different from the infinitive form of
the verb. The 3 sg and 3 pl "desinences" is the in fact the same
vowel as the last vowel of the verb in its infinitive form, thus this
is not a desinence ( do not consider here the literar form for 3 pl
for the verbs, other as these ending in "a" since this is an imposed
one).
The "ã" which is a slight alternation to "a" and "e" is a matter of
stress but not of a special desinence.


Alex