Re: Negation

On 2008-12-03 22:11, tgpedersen wrote:

> Gothic ni ... aiw is acc.sg. Apparently that *xajw- might have
> relatives in Fin. and Est. besides those in Semitic and Etruscan we
> discussed earlier, so we shouldn't expect those relics to conform to
> the IE case system (cf. ever, aeternus etc).

There's absolutely nothing non-IE about the accusative expressing things
like duration. Cf. Lat. multos annos 'for many years', Pol. chwile, 'for
a while', Skt. saMvatsarám 'for a full year' and so on, and so forth.

Piotr