Re[2]: [tied] Romanian Verb Endings and Substratum influence (repos

[Restoring context:]

At 5:40:28 AM on Thursday, June 2, 2005, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

>>>>"Who says the a- is "from the previous word"? Acest and
>>>>acel are the same as Catalan aquest and aquell
>>>>(*accu-iste/u, *accu-ille/u). "

>>> Really? 'Same' evolution at more then 2000 Km inside
>>> the Roman Empire? That happens only in Catalan and
>>> Romanian

>> You really are ignorant about the Romance languages,
>> aren't you?

> You really take some Latinist ideas: like catalan Romanian
> connections , i-spreading etc...as they are in the books
> and repeat them without any deep analysis.

I suspect that Miguel was commenting in particular on your
claim that this particular evolution is unique to Catalan
and Romanian. This is wrong: it's found throughout Iberian
Romance (OSp, OPort <aqueste>, <aquel>), and I believe that
Old Provençal also had <aquel>. (For that matter, I take it
that the intermediate form *eccu underlies Surselvan
<quest>, <quel> and the similar Italian demonstratives, not
to mention Sard. <(i)kuste>, <kud.d.u>.)

Brian