Re: evolving languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 17, 2003, 0:51 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> But very often, rather than
> an evolution of features, we see a renewal of features (for instance, in Latin
> the future of "amare" was "amabo". In Vulgar Latin the synthetic future was
> dropped in favour of an periphrastic construction "amare habeo". In Modern
> French the periphrastic construction merged into a new synthetic
> form "j'aimerai".
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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