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At 08:30 14.10.2003, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
--- Benct Philip Jonsson skrzypszy: > > > Could it be that the final /e/ disappeared from the infinitives > > > before the palatalization? > > > >Yes, it's about the ... ...snip... > >case of infinitives... ;)) > > At least the exact same thing happened in both > Slvanjec and in 'real' Rmc langs. Except Italian, I think. Or could it be that the fine -e in Italian infinitives was re-added later, because the Italians don't like final consonants?
The opinion of scholars is divided in that respect, but personally I'ld tend to see it as a retention
What do the Slevanian infinitives look like, at present? Does it also swallow the /r/, like Romanian does?
Actually it does. The result is a long final vowel -á, -jé, -é, -í -- if I'm going to retain length.
IIRC, in the first drafts of Slevanian, you had endings -rz.
In the present form of the GMP final -e does nòt
narrow to /I/, and so no palatalization.
Instead I'm supposing an early loss of the -e,
and consequently loss of the -r when syllable-
final consonants are lost. Maybe infinitives
should be candidates for liquid metathesis?
/BP 8^)
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