Re: Slavic endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

> There is no consensus, but I think nobody actually defends that view
> any more because the ending -e is found with inanimate nouns,
> adjectives, participles, and pronouns (*keto* 'who'). Most people
> regard the problem as just one of those things.
>
> I won't bother you with my pet theory, which you can find in Die

Welt

> der Slaven 36/1-2 (1991) and Russian Linguistics 18/2, 1994.

But you *have* whetted our appetite, and you can spare us a whole lot
of searching if you would be kind enough to paraphrase the main point
of your theory here. Is it graphic?

Jens