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Re: Status of Italian rising

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Thursday, December 12, 2002, 15:50
Hi Pablo!

Are you still around? That's great! How're you? I hope the terrible news we
get every day from Argentina doesn't directly affect you... How's your
Draseléq going on? Let us know something new!

Luca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pablo David Flores" <pablo-flores@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Status of Italian rising


> Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> writes: > > > > This is very interesting. The Latin stressed vowel > diphthong rule
that
> > > happened in Spanish and Italian (&c.) is certainly active in Spanish. > ... > > There are some dialects, however, that've leveled the paradigm, saying > > things like piensar. > > Also in the opposite direction: |yo colo| instead of |yo cuelo| (from > |colar| "sieve". And the superlatives, which also showed this change, > have been regularized with the diphthongized form: nobody says > |fortísimo| but |fuertísimo|, |bonísimo| > |buenísimo|, etc. > > > --Pablo Flores > http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html > "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments > of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. > No one knows the shape of that future or where it > will take us. We know only that it is always born > in pain." -- G'Kar quoting G'Quon, in "Babylon 5"

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