Re: [tied] Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39522
Date: 2005-08-05

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From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:46 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

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The gen.sg. in *-osyo is that of nouns, the pronominal form is *-
esyo. That indicates to me (we have had frustrating quarrels over it
here) that the sibilant of the genitive was voiceless, and that the
collocation *-e-s + *-yo (containing some reduced form of the
relative pronoun) does not contain the same elements as the
nominative *-o-z (> *-o-s); or, conversely, that the nom. *-o-z (> *-
o-s) does not contain an old genitive.

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Patrick:

Why do you think the -*yo element of the genitive is a "reduced form of the
relative pronoun"?

Why not simply -*yV.'adjectival'?

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Jens

























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