Re: [tied] The 1ps pronoun *ego:... or is it *eg?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 17113
Date: 2002-12-11

Miguel:
>Well, Anatolian has the form *amu(k), which seems to consist of
>*e-, the possessive suffix *-mu, and the emphatic particle *-g^(e), as if
>having the structure EMPH(POSS(THIS)) with optional emphatic, as opposed to
>*eg^(om/o:) of the structure POSS(EMPH(THIS)), with optional possessive.

I fail to see your point. We still don't see *e- used alone
as 1ps. You're using reconstructions and speculation rather than
living examples! We still don't see a demonstrative being used
_alone_ as 1ps. Irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant.


- gLeN


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