Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

Jens:

>This is quite amusing,

You are easily amused.

>Many believe that the old functions of the number markers have been
>retained outside Anatolian and have merged in Anatolian (and some of
>the non-Anatolian languages). That scenario offers no problems I can
>see.

Well, it's doubtful that you'd ever see problems with your own theories
even if they hit you on the head. It's unlikely to me that Anatolian
would go eeney-meeney-meiney-moh and randomly choose which
endings are to be singular and which are to be plural. This is equally
problematic.

>And why can we establish element functions between IE animate dual
>markers and non-IE dual markers if none of them ever were dual markers in
>a shared past?

Elaborate.


- gLeN

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