On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:05:39 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>I'd be willing to accept *-h1e (reduced to *-h1 after vowels) as the Nom.du. ending of masculines, based on internal reconstruction (same for all declensions):
>
>*pod-h1e
>*ph2ter-h1e
Is there any evidence for *-e outside of Greek? All that's ever
mentioned is the Lith. pf.act.ptc. <áugus-e> (Beekes, Krahe).
Unfortunately, my Lithuanian grammar doesn't give dual forms. Is
there another NAV du. C-stem form? Does only the pf.act. participle
have -e? Is it _only_ the pf.act.ptc. from <augti>?
If the -e form is only Greek, there is no reason to reconstruct *-h1e,
and just *-h1 would do. Since that would give -0 outside Greek, that
would account for the fact that everywhere else, the C-stem du. ending
was replaced by the i-stem or o-stem endings.
>*suHnu-h1 > *su:nu:
>*wlkWo-h1 > *wlkWo:
The endings of the i- and u-stems (*-i:, *-u:) can equally be from
*-ih3, *-uh3 [or *-ih2/*-uh2, for that matter]. For the o-stems, I
would sooner expect *-eh1 (vs. *-oh3), but in view of ins.sg. *-oh1
besides *-eh1, there's no real problem.
>but reconstructing *-h3 AND *-h1 with the same function (*-h3 in thematic nouns, *-h1 in athematics) must be diagnosed as a case of acute laryngitis.
I wouldn't say "*-h3 in thematic nouns, *-h1 in athematics". Thematic
neuters have *-oi (*-o-ih1 ?), m./f. i- and u-stems may just as easily
have had *-ih3/*-uh3. It looks more like "*-h3 for animate nouns,
*-h1 for inanimates".
In any case, what's the diagnosis for reconstructing *-es AND *-oi AND
*-h2 with the same function in the plural?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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