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

At 7:03:35 AM on Thursday, June 2, 2005, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> Miguel wrote:

>>There is no (phonological) merger of 3rd. person sg. and
>>plural in Baltic, like there is in the Romanian a:-verbs.
>>In Baltic, there is simply loss of the dual (*-e-te) and
>>plural (*-o-nt[i]) forms, not by phonological, but by
>>syntactic processes. This only affects Baltic. Not Slavic,
>>not Albanian, not Romance.

> I. Miguel, I trust more Cyril Babaev than you regarding
> Lithuanian:
> url:
> http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/grammar/grammar12.html#8

> "The peculiarity of Lithuanian is the joint 3rd person
> form, with no number distinction. It was caused by the
> disappearance of two Indo- European endings -t and -nt, so
> only a vowel remained, and since then all Lithuanian verbs
> have the same forms for "he does" and "they do". Another
> sign of analytization. "

That appears to be essentially what Miguel said. In what
way do you think it differs?

Brian