Re: Odd(?) Low German verb inflection

> > What extra motivation do you need for the loss of a final phoneme?
> > It is such a common pattern in languages. Final /t/ is now
> > regularly lost in some dialects of English.
>
> But it isn't final, like it is in English. It is second to last, and
> all the endings are preserved, among them the dentals of the 3sg,
> 123pl present. What phonological rule makes a second-to-last dental go
> away and spares the final ones?

Which means this loss of PIE *-ta- is some optional morpheme, and
should be identical to other 'optional' PIE *-ta- 's, eg. OCS aorist
2,3sg -ta, Hittite preterite 2,3 -ta (= Hittite da(-is^) "did"?).


Torsten