Re: [tied] Definite adjectives: correction

> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:55:54 +0100, Mate Kapovic
> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
> I don't think so.
>
> >Also, you are trying to solve a Slavic problem by
> >projecting it to the PIE level which is clearly wrong seeing that
> >Baltic shows no such difference, cf. Lith. fem. D. sg. -ai
>
> As Sergejus showed, the Lith. fem. dative has circumflex, but
> the locative had acute. Both can be reconstructed with a
> long vowel (*-a:i).
>
> >and masc. n. pl. -ai which are the same.
>
> Not the adjectival nom.pl. in -ì.
>

, which is from < *íe < *éi (*ey) or *ói (*oy, if one accepts *oi > [some
not very certain prosody-related conditions] *ie in East Baltic ) (this is
rather for Mate than for you).

Besides (according to Kazlauskas' and Zinkevic^ius' historical grammars),
some Baltists see in the substantive nom. pl. -ai~ a historical acute,
converted to circumflex by the Endzeli:ns law (*-áu#, *-ái# > *-au~, *-ai~
). Jens, for instance, seems not to believe in the law, but I'm still
waiting for his rebuttals.

Sergei