[tied] Re: Caland [was -m (-n)?]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
. Now if those adjectives are part of a language in which

> adjectives are part of a paradigm, eg case, or number (or

whatever)

> such as is the case in PIE, that split would have been caused by

the

> various case/number suffixes. This would lead to a heterogenous
> pardigm for those adjectives.

That fails to even address the original problem: Why is there almost
complete complementarity in the distribution of u- and ro-adjectives
in terms of the phonetic make-up of the root segment?

Jens