Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52827
Date: 2008-02-12

Could you give an example of a bare *CoC noun - without any suffixes?


Patrick

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> If you think that *e/*o are analogous phenomena to Semitic vowel
> patterning,
> and, that *o is nominal whereas *e is verbal (I think you wrote this),
> then
> you need to think again.
> *o appears in many verbal as well as nominal inflections but, by no means,
> are all or even the majority of nominals endowed with *o.
> Patrick
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> In a root like C_C-
> with no suffix
> CoC is a noun
> CeC is a verb
> In very earlier stages of Proto-Sapiens
> Afterwards, things became more complicated
> because of suffixes that change the syntactic class.
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> Arnaud
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