Re: Negation

On 2008-12-03 23:42, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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.

PS

If one treats the underlying *h2oju in <oukí> etc. as an accusative of
duration, the whole thing (*ne h2oju-kWid) should be interpreted as 'not
for ages to come'.

Piotr