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Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 21:56
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>But I don't think this is a mandatory thing for a para-Romance artlang. >What is wrong with using the regular derivates of _habes_, _habet_ >( > _awes_, _awe_ in your conlang, as far as I can guess)?
Well, I am going that route, I just didnt see how Spanish got to it's forms from the rules in that book i read. But, my changes would be
>
habeo - haueo habes - haues habet - haue habemus - hauemos habetis - hauées habent - haueng It seems that in the auxiliary forms in (this book on Spanish language history I have shows that the full verb, except habeo seems to be regular) they drop the 've' or the 'av' in most cases (avemos > emos > hemos, aves
> as > has) . Of course,
A small sample: I have sung the song - Haueo cantáo la cançón