Re: [tied] Everything except the kitchen sink

On Sat, 10 May 2003 04:52:35 +0000, Glen Gordon
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>Externally, there is no correlation between IE's marked nominative and
>the unmarked nominatives of Uralic and EskimoAleut, yet a clear
>relationship for the accusative ending *-m.

In EA, *-m is the ergative/genitive, not the accusative.

> 2. We then assume some more that *s & *t alternate initially in
> order to support the above groundless fantasy...
> Why?? There's no evidence of *s/*t alternation initially or even
> medially either!

There is certainly evidence for initial, medial and final alternation.
Medially we have the ptc.pf. *-wot, obl. *-us-, and the "moon/month"
word *méh1no:ts, *meh1nésos. Initial alternation is found, ausser in
the demonstrative *so / *to-, in the 2nd. person pronoun sg. *tu, with
dual obl. *sWoh3 [Grk. sphó: "you two"], plural *sWey-es (>Hitt. sumes
(< *sweyes), OIr. sí, We. chwi (*swe:-) , pl.obl. swos ~ smos (Hitt.
-smas, Toch. -me, Goth. izw-).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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