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Hmmmm-- before anybody calls my bluff, I suppose, after looking it over, I shouldn't say for sure that *unstressed* 'i' shifted to 'e'-- but obviously there was a lowering in many cases (i.e., CL 'lingua' > 'lengua'). Needless to say, I haven't yet picked up my copy of "From Latin to Romance in Sound Charts." :-P --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark G" <codename_gimmick@...> wrote: > > Bear with me, guys, this is the first in a series of questions I'm > posting (which I'm posting separately, because besides their relation > to Romance languages, are unrelated)... I'm feeling inquisitive. :-P > > Is there any evidence that some Romance languages retained the third > person pronouns "is" and "ea?" I know I've seen Italian dialects that > have the feminine pronoun "ea," but looking at their masculine > counterparts, it typically looks like that may just be a mutated > version of "illa" that lost the lateral. > > I'm aware that Spanish contains demonstrative pronouns "eso" and > "ésto"-- perhaps "eso" is a derivation from "is"? It seems to fit the > vowel shift of unstressed 'i' to 'e'. > > What I'm curious to see, though, are 'is' and 'ea' used as they were > used in CL... even better, are there any conlangs that retain these > usages? > > Just some morbid curiosity-- I'm toying with the idea of doing this > myself in my own conlang... I'm sure I'll decide that regardless of > the answers, but a guy can still be curious, yeah? :-) >