Re: [tied] Demonstratives

From: P&G
Message: 31638
Date: 2004-03-31

>Thank you for the corrections. I learned German so long ago that have
forgotten almost >everything... But the fact that <jener> is really ---made
of the relative *yo- + the deictic >*eno- only supports the idea that the
*yo- never changed into a demonstrative!

If the conversation is about IE in general, then *yo certainly did become a
demonstrative. It is regularly used that way in Latin. But if you're
talking only about German, I'll shut up.

Peter