[tied] Re: East Romance -i v. West Romance -s (was: Rom aia - Alb a

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> The dissaperance of the desinences is fine conterbalanced by the

use of

> the personal pronoun. If the dessinences are gone, there is no big
> problem as we see in many languages. More, the speakers are not
> conscious about loosing the desinences and the use of the personal
> pronoun is quiet an automatismus. Thus, following this

explanation, we

> have to assume someone was conscious the desinences begun to get

wipped

> out, so this one begun a work to re-establish them. And this of

course a

> idea which can work on the paper but is not practicable.
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> Alex
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I do not believe in the doctrine that the use of grammar by every
day speach is totally unconscious.


Secondly, use of personal pronouns was not any automatismus in
Latin, and is still not so in Italian. The omittance of unstressed
pronouns is the rule.

Therefore beginning to use unstressed personal pronouns also needed
a consciuos decision.

So, the Italians had the choise between two conscious decisions:
Begin using unstresed pronius or using the i-ending from the 4th
declention in all declensions.

The loosing desinences of cour

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