Re: [tied] Definite adjectives: correction

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:34:47 +0100, Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

>I have no answer to
>the question why the agglutination of *-én (to the *-o-stems' locative) has
>eventually yielded a simple -e` rather than something like *-eje` or *-aje`
>in the noun paradigm (why _kieme`_ 'in (the) yard' rather than *_kiemeje`_
>or _kiemaje`_?)

The plural doesn't fit either. *-oisu+en should have given something like
*-aise, not -uose (*-o:s-en). It's as if *en had been added to the acc.pl.
(also works in the a:- and i-stems: *-a:(n)s-en > -ose, *-i:(n)s-en >
-yse). But the accusative doesn't work in the singular.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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