Re: [tied] Re: Accusative was allative

Torsten:

> I'm not so sure of that.
> "news" to an English speaker is a plural
> "nieuws" to a Dutch speaker is a genitive [...]

You're not sure that endings that are phonetically
similar can't be falsely related together?

That's not a good sign.

> And why is there all this *-s/*-i confusion in both
> gen.sg. and nom.pl.?

The gen sg was *-(o)s or *-syo. The animate nominative
plural was *-es but there was also *-ih, an inanimate
dual marker apparently.

There's no confusion except your own.

> That's why I suspect the accusative of having moved
> the stress to the stem, from having it on the ending
> when it was only an allative. Thus arose the e/o ablaut
> (zero grade was already there).

There's no reason for the supposed stress shift except
to conveniently patch up a swiss cheese theory.


= gLeN