Re: [Courrier indésirable] Re:[tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:01:15 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>> I will not take pronouns into accounts.
>> because there just is no I or you words
>> but a whole bag of affixes and roots
>> that express these words.
>> but I keep the rest.
>
>You could still include those affixes.
>
>==========
>
>Why ???
>
>The *fetishist* morphological theory
>is not even capable of explaining
>why
>Italian Verb-i P2 "thou"
>is from Latin Verb-s-
>
>Cantas > cantai !!

It's really very simple. The i-verbs were the only ones to
preserve the distinction between 2nd and 3rd person sg. in
Eastern Romance (the area where final -s and -t were lost).
In the other verbs (-a:s, -at > -a ; -is, -it > -e; -e:s,
-et > -e) the distinction was lost. Added to that the fact
that final -s becomes -i (-/j/) in monosylables (das > dai,
cras > crai, post > poi), and ecco your new general 2sg.
morpheme -i.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
miguelc@...