Re: [tied] r/n datives

From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 14801
Date: 2002-08-30

In a message dated 8/29/2002 8:00:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, mcv@... writes:


My personal theory is that the dative and locative were originally the same
case, and that the dative (*-éi) arose out of generalization of the
hysterodynamic (end-stressed) Dat/Loc, while the locative is (*'-i) is the
proterodynamic (not-end-stressed) Dat/Loc. [etc.]



   Thanks; all good to know.

David Fickett-Wilbar