Some New Thoughts on Old Spanish Second-Person Plural Verb Endings

• Cynthia Kauffeld ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Wisconsin–Madison

     University of Wisconsin–Madison

     City of Madison, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall - Special issue In memoriam: Ray Harris-Northall (1953-2009)), págs. 235-248
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The loss of the intervocalic -d- of the Old Spanish second-person plural verb ending affected proparoxytonic and paroxytonic forms at significantly different points in time, with the unstressed endings maintaining the internal consonant considerably longer than their stressed counterparts. Scholars agree that the loss of the-d- in the end of the stressed forms (whereby for example, the form "dades" gave way to "daes" and later to the alternation "dais-das") began in the fourteenth century and became fairly widespreed by the end of the fifteenth, with the modern forms clearly established by the mid-sixteenth [...]