Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

Jens:

>The basis of the reconstruction *-m is the fact that all Eskimo dialects
>West of the Mackenzie River distinguish between nasals and stops in
>word-final position, while that opposition is neutralized in the Eastern
>territory. And the ergative ends in -m in the West. It also ends in -m in
>Aleut.

Thanks, I suspected this was the idea behind it.


- gLeN

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