Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE languages)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:01:13 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>

wrote:

>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >I would relate it to -k in Gothic mi-k, Ti-k.
>
> I wouldn't.
>
> >> 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

(?).

> >
> >Subtract *?an- which no one knows what means and you're left with

1

> >sg -a:ku, 2 sg -ta/-ti etc.
>
> Yes, that's the stative endings (PIE *-h2, *-th2; Uralic *-k, *-n

[k]).

>

Alright, so -a:ku etc is from Proto-Nostratic. What happened to that
root in those Nostratic languages which don't have it? It disappeared?

Torsten