Re: [tied] Demonstratives

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:10:43 +0400, Âàäèì Ïîíàðÿäîâ
<ponaryad@...> wrote:

>Peter:
>
>> 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.
>
>In Latin? Where? I know this language not badly, and cannot find there anything similar!

Me neither. Perhaps the intention was is, id, ea etc. (which
are from the anaphoric pronoun *i-, obl. *e-, not from the
realtive/interrogative *yo-). The relative/interrogative in
Latin is based on *kW-, as in other IE languages.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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