Re: [tied] Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

On Sat, 01 May 2004 11:52:58 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> However, the ending -as in <wastulas> is simply the thematic
>> nominative (if it's a nominative) or the Hittite thematic
>> genitive (if it's a genitive). The thematic declension may
>> originally have conveyed something like a definite meaning,
>> but one cannot attribute the double function of definite
>> marker _and_ genitive marker to the single morpheme *-os.
>
>I cannot see the basis for calling it "thematic":

It's the synchronic genitive ending of thematic nouns in
Hittite.

>-as is the
>genitive ending of *all* nouns in Hittite, regardless of stem class.
>With that in mind one cannot use -as to demonstrate very much.

As I said:

"Leaving aside preconceptions, there is a good chance that
this [thematic G. -as] continues an original them.gen. ending
*-os, and there is an equally good chance that it represents
analogical spread of athematic *-os to the o-stems."


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