Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

In a message dated 8/31/02 11:51:40 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>The only real grammatical departure I can think of is the Argentine voseo--
>but that again is found in Spain and occasionally elsewhere in the New
>World.
I was recently surprised to hear from a coworker about another Argentinean
grammatical departure. Verbs are conjugated a bit differently for 'vos':
basically, the stress goes on the end, so you have things like 'vos comés' (I
don't know how if an accent is written) rather than 'tú comes'. Likewise for
commands - 'sentáte' is used instead of 'siéntate'. Note, there is no stem
change (this may be true for present tense too, but I don't know), and, he
tells me, the accent is actually written there (even though it seems
unnecessary, since stress would naturally fall on the penultimate syllable
anyway). Anyone else heard of this?

Josh Roth
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