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Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 3:00
Steg Belsky wrote:
> I'm not sure what process turns /s/ into /S/, but according to my book on > Romance languages it happened in Portuguese, and some other langs.
In Portuguese it happened in syllable-final position, and maybe, my memory's not to good here, before /i/, i.e., _esta_ = something like [eSta] -- 2 Wakalláf watyánivaf plal 273 http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor