Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:25:27 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>16-07-03 18:38, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> There's the point quoted by Peter:
>> -- Streitberg says "That at one time nasal vowels had come into existence
>> -- in the accusative is shown by the fact that older northern runic
>> -- inscriptions already have apocope of -a in absolute auslaut.., whereas
>> -- an -a that follows a nasal survives."
>
>I haven't got the book to hand and don't know what particular data made
>Streitberg arrive at such a generalisation, but I suspect that most of
>those <-a>'s that follow a nasal occur in the particularly frequent word
><staina> (<horna> is of course another example).

Hmm, I misread that as:

That at one time nasal vowels had come into existence
in the accusative is shown by the fact that older northern runic
inscriptions already have apocope of -a in absolute auslaut.., whereas
an -a that PRECEDES a nasal survives.

...although I'm not altogether sure if perhaps it was Streitberg who
miswrote. As it stands, it makes no sense.


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