Lejeune 1990

Michel Lejeune, "Notes de linguistique italique. XXXIX Génitifs en -osio et génitifs en -i", Revue des Études Latines 67 (1989 [1990]), 63–77.

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Author/Editor:	Michel Lejeune
Type:	linguistic study
Language:	French
Used for:	14 pages (show list)

Commentary

After a panoramic view on the informations given from the East Indo-European for the endings in genitive *-osyo and -i, Lejeune attempts to fix a chronology for the two endings for each domain, and also the dynamics of the phenomena which led to the situation treated in the documentation. For Lepontic in particular he hypothesises an original situation with a competition between *-osyo and *-ōd, which has been complicated by -i, probably through "une influence tardive du gaulois" (77).