Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

Also the Hittite ntr.pl. forms in -i must come from somewhere. It fits the
dual of the other languages, so does the ntr.pl. -e of the enclitic stem
-a-, and so do the -w- forms of the 1pl in the verb.

Jens

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

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