Re: evolving languages
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 17, 2003, 12:06 |
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At 11:17 17/01/03 +0100, you wrote:
>En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:
>
>>
>> Spanish, too. Amare habeo -> amaré. And furthermore, some dialects
>> have lost the synthetic future for the new pariphrastic "voy a amar",
>> altho AFAIK, there's no evidence that that, too, will become a
>> synthetic
>> form anytime soon.
>>
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>Well, it took more than 1000 years for the periphrastic AMARE HABEO to turn
>into a synthetic future tense. Give the new Spanish form some time ;)))) .
>
>Christophe.
>
It makes me wonder whether a future form of English might have such forms as
"I wigo", "I wibee" etc. "Future English"- now there's a conlang idea for
somebody - is anybody doing anything along those lines? I imagine there'd
be some Spanish influence, possibly some from Indian languages too.
Pete Bleackley
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