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At 06:29 9.2.2004, Jeff Jones wrote:
> > What I meant was, how did they develop historically? Latin > didn't have regular pp's in -utus. Yet Ital. regularly has > -uto for -ere verbs: devere 'must', devuto; cadere 'fall' > caduto, avere 'have', avuto, veduto 'seen' etc.; and unexpected > venire 'come' venuto. Likewise Catalan AFAIK and perhaps > Romanian; and French, though there it's always hard to tell how > "regular" they are-- venir, venu but devoir, dû (?) connaitre > connu etc. (And Provençal?) Latin had a class of verbs with principle parts like -eo:, -e:re, -ui:, -itum, and another smaller subclass like -uo:, -uere, -ui:, -u:tum. The perfect stem caused confusion between the two classes and the participle -itum (which was awkward anyway) was replaced through analogy.
E.g. sequi, sequor, secutus est.
Cf. Engl. persecute.
Which reminds me that Slvanjec ought to have
a class of participles in -yt(a).
/BP 8^)
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