Re: [tied] Re: PIE athematic neuters

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 4:17 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: PIE athematic neuters

> >   To consider *-s a "genitive" is absurd considering its uses as a
> nominative/ergative/singular and plural marker. With this range of
> uses, it could have marked nothing unambiguously.
>
>
> IMHO this does justice neither to Pedersen's nor to Kortlandt's
> conception of this ending.
>

http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art203e.pdf


Torsten

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Patrick:

 

Well, Kortlandt is rather straightforward on this question (page 1).

 

After having read page 6, I am afraid I must downgrade Kortlandt, in my opinion, from merely absurd to utterly ridiculous.

 

Misusing phonological change, K. obviously thinks anything can be related to anything if he wants to establish a relationship.

 

And when phony sound transformation laws will not work, he heaps so many phones together that God Himself could not predict the phonological outcome.

 

A thoroughly wasted effort!

 

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