Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> - to match together the SOV order of Latin with the VSO order of Arabic, I have
> thought of a transitional soVSO order, which consists of a VSO order with
> personal and demonstrative pronouns in front of the verb to anticipate the real
> S and O which appear after the verb,
Well, no problem there, that is (in terms of my favorite example)
/ZladetEst mwa mari/ though of course probably with different phonology.

> Add to it the loss of the verb ESSE, except in other tenses than present (like
> Arabic kaana), quite plausible
Note that in Vulgar L. the verb was ESSERE, as still in Italian.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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