The Quest For A Proto-Romani Infinitive

The Quest For A Proto-Romani Infinitive Michael Benísek, 2010   This article addresses the origin of several inherited non-finite forms in Common Romani and the reconstruction of their usage in Proto-Romani, with particular focus on the reconstruction of a pre-Early Romani infinitive. The core of the article is devoted to the nominalisations in -(i)ben. It is argued that, before the morphosyntactic convergence with Greek, their predecessors in *-(i)bo were used in various subordinate...

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