LL-L "Morphophonology" 2005.08.18 (07) [E]

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From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Morphophonology" 2005.08.18 (04) [E]


Did the romance languages do away with the
>"Ablaut"?


Latin of course had ablaut, but afaik not in verb paradigms, or not even in 
paradigms at all (apart maybe from things like pater - patrem) just in 
different words (which of course also is like this in Germanic and every 
other IE language, as such ablaut has zero chance of being leveled out by 
analogy. Verbs have, in their past tenses, sometimes vowel alternation, but 
I've never read a work that describes this to IE ablaut systems, but rather 
to the structure of words, vowel lengthening because of different consonant 
clusters in past tenses, etc.

On the other hand, although having had Latin for 4 years in high school, I'm 
not very home in its underlying structure and etymology :)

Cheers and succes in your search!

Diederik Masure

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