Sobre los supuestos lesbismos del dialecto cirenaico

Abstract

It has been supposed the existence of common morphological and phonetic features between Cyrenaean and Lesbian: the phonetic development of secondary -ns-; the dative plural of consonantal stems in -εσσι; the infinitive type διδων; the perfect participle προγεγονοισαις. The study of each feature shared by both dialects shows the great difficulties that all of them imply and induces to question the existence of Lesbian features in this dialect at any time: the treatment of the secondary cluster –ns- to -is- does not occur in final position, like in Lesbian and cannot only be explained from Lesbian; the agreement of the -εσσι datives in *-ēu̯ does not really exist and the -εσσι forms do not occur in Cyrenaean regularly in other stems, as opposed to Lesbian; the infinitive διδων can be explained as a transfer of this form to the inflection of contracts verbs, as can be seen in παττιθεν; perfect participles like προγεγονοισαις occur sporadically in other dialects also and could even be an artificial form.