Re: Roumán Part II - Nouns,Adjectives,and Pronouns

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> A nice idea, but I'm wondering about the meaning of verbs. This evolution would
> mean that all transitive verbs would have a swapping of meaning, from active to
> "passive", unless the endings you kept where from the passive voice already.
Well, it was from the active.  But, I figure that originally nouns would
be marked ergatively (is that a word?), while verbs would continue to
agree with the nominative, however, eventually, verbs would start
agreeing with the absolutive.  So:

Latin: Julia hominês videt (Julia sees the men)
Early R: Yuia oneis bidiç (verb in singular)
Later R: Yuia oneis bidin (verb in plural)

Or:
Latin: Julia me videt
Early R: Yuia mei bidiç
Later R: Yuia (mei) bid (1st person agreement)

Kind of like how informal Spanish uses, IIRC, forms like "habían cinco
hombres", while the "correct" form is "había cinco hombres".

> Indeed. That's a nice idea, very plausible and still original :) .
Thank you.  :-)

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