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Re: Proto-Romance

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 0:19
Doug Dee wrote:
> So, with that as background, I'd like to ask: was any substantial part of > Classical Latin grammar constructed/made up, and opposed to coming from the > Vulgar Latin of the appropriate period?
Well, other than borrowings from Greek, often pronounced pedantically with appropriate aspiration, I seem to remember reading that in VL, and in Old Latin, as well, the nominative plural of 1st declension nouns was -a:s, identical to the accusative plural, and that -ae was formed by analogy with the 2nd declension.