Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22451
Date: 2003-06-01

On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:02:37 +0000, Glen Gordon
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>Personally, I side with the consensus that the dual is a late
>innovation that didn't have enough time to fully form in IE.
>Since we can be sure based on a lot of evidence that the
>Anatolian group branched out earlier than the others, its
>lack of dual (among other things), indicates that the dual is
>indeed a recent innovation.

But does Anatolian lack a dual? Szemerényi mentions the Luwian duals
<pata>, <issara>, <aruta> "feet", "hands", "wings".


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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