Re: Romula - the news

Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
> At 16:56 11/01/00 +1300, you wrote:
> >
> >> Participio Presente:    dante
> >> Gerundio:               dando, -a
> >I have this funny feeling that the survival of the Gerund distinct from
> >the present participle is uncommon, and it is unproductive in Romance
> >languages.
>         Unproductive and uncommon? Well, all Romance languages I know a little of
> have the distinction except French
Maybe the distinction is common and unproductive. In Spanish you
certainly have a grammatical gerund, but the present participle
is not grammatical anymore, or is not a real word. When it is,
it's generally a noun. I don't know what the situation is in
Portuguese.


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