Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 17, 2000, 22:22 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> There was a drift towards a three conj. system in western Romance. In
> Iberian Romance the 3rd conj. got absorbed into the second.
Not entirely true, consider _dicere_ which became Spanish _decir_, while
_volvere_ became _volver_. It appears that 3rd conjugation was split
between 2nd and 4th. I don't know if there was any kind of pattern to
which one they joined.
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