On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:44:00 +0000, tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>Alright, let's assume for the moment that you are right and that the
>pronouns in Nostratic are inherited, not borrowed.
Given the exceptionally low incidence of pronoun borrowing, that should
indeed be the null hypothesis.
>How do you explain
>then the occurrence of the "extra" 1 sg. *eg(h)-o-m in some languages
>(IE, AfroAsiatic, Chukchi)
*eg^(h)-o-m of course occurs in IE. To the best of my knowledge, it has
nothing to with anything in Chukchi or Afro-Asiatic.
The Chuckchi independent pronuns are:
1. G&m pl. 1. muri
2. G&t 2. turi
In the singular, the possessive endings -m and -t have been added to an
element G-. I don't have extensive information on Chukchi, so I have no
idea where that element comes from. Perhaps it canm be associated with the
element t-/tx- that is found in the Aleut personal pronouns 1. t-ing, 2.
tx-in.
The Afro-Asiatic (Semitic) 1st. person pronon *?ana:ku consists of an
element *?an- ("here"?) + the 1sg. stative ending -a:ku "I am". Cf.
*?an-ta/*?an-ti/*?an-ka/*?an-ki "you" < *?an *t-kV here-you-are(?).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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