>The system I propose
> for Boreal (parent of Uralic, CK and EA) would be something like
> the following:
>
> TRANS INTRANS
> 1ps *-im *-uh
> 2ps *-it *-un
> 3ps *-isa *-u
>
Does (Northern) English 3ps -s and Norse 3ps (*-z >) -r indicate a
Boreal substrate in Northern Britain and in Scandinavia?
(The inflection pattern of your native language dies hard. I worked
in a Danish software company which required all documentation to be
in English. It was, save for the inflection pattern of the verbs:
1ps *-Ø *-Ø
2ps *-Ø *-Ø
3ps *-Ø *-Ø
"In this loop the program wait for an interrupt..." etc etc. And
those engineers were not interested in any frou-frou objections from
some half linguist about missing -s'es. This is English, period. The
substrate, Danish, for comparison:
1ps *-r *-r
2ps *-r *-r
3ps *-r *-r
)
Torsten