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2.3 Palatalization:<br />
d + j VIDĔO → veo<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hispanic</strong> <strong>Languages</strong><br />
<strong>Verbal</strong> <strong>morphology</strong>: <strong>present</strong> indicative stems 2<br />
SEDĔAM → sea || VADAM → vaya<br />
but VADO → *vao → vo → voy<br />
g + j FUGĬO → huyo<br />
b + j HABĔAM > haya but HABĔO → he<br />
2.4 Metaphony:<br />
p + j CAPĬO > quepo<br />
SAPĬAM > sepa but SAPĬO → sé<br />
2.5 Monosyllabic forms:<br />
DO → doy<br />
STO → estoy<br />
SUM → soy<br />
VADO → voy<br />
2.6 ‘Inchoative’ suffix:<br />
?MERESCO > merezco || LUCĔO → luzco<br />
?NASCO > nazco<br />
and general extension to all verbs in -ecer and -ucir.<br />
2.7 Evidence of continuing variation:<br />
roer raigo || caer<br />
roigo || oir<br />
roo || comer<br />
royo || vaya<br />
yacer yazco || nazco<br />
yazgo ||<br />
yago || hago<br />
asir aso<br />
asgo<br />
asco<br />
haber haya || vaya<br />
haiga || caiga<br />
cocer cuezo<br />
cuezgo<br />
cuego || digo<br />
Further reading:<br />
Malkiel, Yakov, ‘New Problems in Romance Interfixation (I): <strong>The</strong> Velar Insert in the Present Tense (with an<br />
excursus on -zir/-zer verbs)’, Romance Philology, 27 (1973-74), 304-55.
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