Re: [tied] Re: Demonstratives

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:21:56 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> We see that Kartvelian (*mi, *ki) occupies an intermediary
>> position between "South Nostratic" (PAA, Basque, 1/2
>> pronouns *ni, *ki) and "North Nostratic" (PIE, Uralic,
>> Altaic, EA, etc., 1/2 pronouns *mi, *ti or *mu, *tu).
>
>But AA also has the 2nd person prefix *ta- in the prefix
>conjugation, so the split is even less clear cut.

Yes. I think that's one of the reasons why *ki changed to
*ti in the "Northern languages".

>And the suffix
>conjugation may simply have had *-t- for the 2nd person, tempting
>though Nostratic *-tk- > AA *-tk-, PIE *-th2- is. My source is your
>own 'Nostratic Tour' on Nostratica, assembled as a file in the files
>section of Nostratic-L (the latter for members only, curses be to
>Yahoo).

We can change that can't we?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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