Balkan tongues (was: biloxi update)
"Alfred W. Tüting"
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de
Sat Oct 16 18:26:42 UTC 2004
> (Bob) BTW, while I'm on Romanian articles, the textbook analysis of the
masculine singular nominative-accusative article as a postposed -ul is
wrong. The apparent suffix -ul is actually bimorphemic. The /-u/ is
historically the masculine singular ending on the noun stem. The
article is just the /-l/. (Or, more abstractly, /-lu/). There was a
sound change that lost the -u regularly.
So the proper segmentation of, say, calului 'of the horse' is calu + lu
+ i 'horse + art. + genitive. Not, as found in standard textbooks, *cal
+ ul + ui, or, worse, *cal + ului. Trust me, I wrote a whole
dissertation of this stuff :-) <<
I totally agree with that. And that seems to be why in some fix
expressions there's still the final -u (without article -l), e.g. _dracu_.
Vã ia dracu
Fiul Diavolului se duce la Satana:
-Tatã, vreau sã mã insor!
-Bine fiule, dar vezi sã nu iei o curvã!
-Dar tatã, cum stiu cã nu e curvã?
-Pãi fiule,iesi cu un Ferarri pe o stradã, clanxonezi, si dacã
intoarce capul e curvã, dacã nu ia-o de nevastã....
Iese el pe stradã cu Ferrari, clanxoneazã, dar toate intorc capul.
Iese el pe a 2-a stradã cu Ferrari, clanxoneazã, dar toate intorc capul.
Iese el pe a 3-a stradã cu Ferrari, clanxoneazã, numai una nu intoarce
capul. Se duce la ea si o ia de nevastã.
MORALA BANCULUI:
Fetelor faceti-vã curve, cã vã ia dracu' !!
;-)
Alfred
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