[tied] Re: PIE Word Formation Q&A (1)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
> > Alright, I will. In the meantime, however, how much support is
> > there for that analysis in the attested descendant languages?
>
> What analysis? One finds *-eh2 in o-stems for the collective and
> *-V:C elsewhere in archaisms together with *-eh2 which is, as
> already said, secondary.

I am asking for systematic examples of these *-V:C "archaisms". Is it
that difficult for you to provide some?

> > What is this "mixing" of which you speak? Languages (better,
> > speakers of languages) don't throw things together haphazardly.
>
> Again, check any handbook... "Mixing" is not the right name for it
> in English (I cannot remember the exact term right now and I have

no > literature handy), but it's a known phenomenon.

As far as I know, no such phenomena as general "mixing" is recognized
in linguistics.

- Rob