Re: Romance Verbal endings

Barri Garcia wabbe:

> 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?
Well, I see in Spanish that -ir verbs are just -er verbs where the
root's finnal vowel is becomes high (e->i, o->u) when there is not an
stressed high vowel.  Drop this alternance in one way or another
(regularize those verbs), and the difference between -ir and -er
disapears in all but the infinitive (and the infinitive derived
tenses).

-- Carlos Th




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