Re: Romula: tense system - request for comments
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 4, 2000, 22:21 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> But Artyom states quite clearly that it belongs somewhere in the western
> group; thus, as Andrew says, one would expect -mos.
On the other hand, in Portuguese, unstressed /e/ and /o/ in final
syllables (at least in Brazilian Portuguese, I don't know about European
Portuguese) becomes /i/ and /u/, so that "do" is /du/, not /do/ (= de o
= of the.masc.sing), and "de" is /dZi/ (/d/ and /t/ are palatized before
/i/). So, it seems reasonable that if Portuguese did it (altho keeping
orthographic {o} and {e}), Romula could do it.
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