Re: Romula: tense system - request for comments
From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2000, 3:49 |
Am 01/08 18:18 Raymond Brown yscrifef:
> French shows the tendency towards levelling of forms. Had this not
> happened we'd have had, e.g.: j'aime ~ nous amons; je parole, nous parlons.
>
> There is no reason to suppose that such a process was carried even further
> in Brithenig.
>
My own feeling is Brithenig has resisted leveling. Eo af /EO'a(v)/ ~ nu h-afan /nUh@'van/;
eo barol /EOb@'rol/, nu pharolan /nUf@rO'lan/.
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
"Piskie, Piskie, say Amen
Doon on your knees and up agen."
"Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend;
Sit ye doon on mon's chief end."
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