Re: Romance Verbal endings

Christophe Gandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:
>
> > I was contemplating ways to make Montreiano's verbs a little different,
> > and started to wonder: Is it plausible for the -ir endings to collapse
> > into the -er class of verbs? I know that in Spanish, it seems the -er
> > verb
> > class hasn't been very productive, and some have been adopted into the
> > -ir
> > class of verbs. I was thinking it would be nice to have just two
> > classes,
> > -er, and -ar, but I want it to also be somewhat realistic. Thoughts?
> >
>
> IIRC, Occitan does that, so it sounds really realistic :) .
No, actually Occitan goes completely the other way. There are three
conjugations, as in French: -er, -re and -ir. The -ir conjugation has become
so fond of the augment that it is used for all persons and tenses!

Dan

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