Re: [tied] Demonstratives

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:20:45 +0400, <ponaryad@...>
wrote:

>Well, I'm completely agree with you in what you say about methodology. But is your solution really the most efficient? As a matter of fact, I see that there exists at least one point where Miguel's one works better. In Greek the feminine ending commonly is *-a: (long), and the neutral ending is *-a (short). I can easily explain it inside Miguel's hypothesis as *-a: < *-eyh2, and *-a < *-eh2. But if the both are derived from the same original *-eh2, how can we explain this difference?
>

In fact I'm sorry to say that my hypothesis doesn't solve
that. Fem.nom.sg. *-a-ih2 > *-eh2 > *-a:, while a thematic
n. "pl." *-e-h2 would also result in -a: (as it does in Skt.
and Slavic). The Graeco-Latin form -a (with short vowel) is
not thematic: it represents *-h2 > *-&2 > -a.


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