Re: [tied] Re: Thematic vowel etc

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:49:41 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> >Of all the things that were inflected like nouns in the
>beginning,
>> >the demonstratives were the only ones that were not syllabic.
>>
>> Why do you say that? I've never seen an asyllabic
>> demonstrative.
>
>I've reassigned *t-, *s-, *y- of the demonstratives to be sentence
>connectives, as they are in Hittite.

You mean ta, su, -(y)a "and"? What about nu, -ma?

>The result of that is that
>demonstratives consist of *s-, *t-, *y-, which are non-syllabic,
>plus suffix. Inevitably the result of that composition must be
>stressed on the suffix.

My question still stands: where have you ever seen an
asyllabic demonstrative? If the demonstrative is weakened
to a definite article, it may occasionally become assylabic,
but not if it remains as a demonstrative. Case in point is
Slavic tU, which should have become asyllabic after the loss
of the yers, but didn't (Russ. tot, Pol. ten, etc.).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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