Re: East Romance -i v. West Romance -s (was: Rom aia - Alb ajo < PA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> --- In 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
>

It is precisely because I thought it was suspect that a -s should have
become an -i that I proposed that the change wasn't phonological, but
due to hypercorrection.


Torsten