Re: [tied] Re: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?

Miguel:

> I still have some questions (what's the relationship between
> *-osyo- and the athematic gen. *-os? Why do we find *-osyo
> outside Anatolian only in the pronominal/thematic
> declensions? etc.) but I'll read Bader first.

Because pronominal stems had enclitic and non-enclitic forms.
Sometimes ending with *& as the core vowel, sometimes with
fuller *a. Both *a and *& merged to *o during Vowel Shift but
*& yielded e/o alternation in the paradigm while forms with *a
did not.


= gLeN