Re: [tied] Qualitative ablaut and prefixing

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 02:57:40 +0000, "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>>PIE too does have a limited number of prefixes. The
>>augment *h1e- is directly or indirectly attested in the
>>majority of IE language families.
>
>Another bad example. Although it may be considered a
>prefix in Late IE, it definitely formed very late, as
>anyone can see, out of a particle *?e that happened to
>be positioned before the verb

In other words, prefixed.

>As for "mobile *s", these are all Semitoid loanwords

?????

>that
>contained a verbal prefix whose function was lost to the
>Indo-Europeans. The influx of loans both with and without
>this prefix is the cause of *s-. To this day, no one has
>attributed a true function to it in IE and therefore it
>cannot be considered a true prefix.

Whether the function can be recovered in no way affects the
possibility of it having been a prefix.

Another example of prefixation in PIE are the preverbs (such as the p-
of Hitt. p-iyati).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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