From: squilluncus
Message: 39968
Date: 2005-09-13
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
You find the same phenomenon in the combination a-t-il = has he,
> >> where a -t is used in analogy with other similar combinations.
> >>
> >
> >I've always considered this -t- the only survivor of 3rd sing -t in
> >Romance languages. Perhaps I am wrong?
>
> Sardo maintains -t unchanged:
>
> canto, cantas, cantat
> cantamus, cantades, cantant
>
Thanks for this information. How about Fr. -t-? Is it a survivor or
just an anti-hiatus phoneme?
Lars