Re: [tied] Demonstratives

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:18:13 +0100, P&G
<petegray@...> wrote:

>>>>*yo certainly did become a
>>>>demonstrative. It is regularly used that way in Latin.
>>>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-).
>
>Ah! Sorry! I certainly did mean is ea id, and assumed without checking
>that it was from *yo. Though I note that Pokorny treats them as one stem,
>with two uses, and gets support for this from both Brugmann and Pedersen.
>So at least in this error I am in good company.

It is possible that *yo- is derived from *i-, but the two
are clearly separate in their uses (except where a
phonetical merger has taken place, as in Slavic). It's not
like what we see with *kWis and *kWos, or *k^is and *k^os,
which seem to be indistinguishable in meaning.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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