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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> Abbreviating 'is-owner-of' to 'OWN' ('DAT' is too specific to
> Chickasaw), it converts
>
> Y OWN-X-NOM
>
> to
>
> Y-NOM OWN-X-NOM
By 'it', I mean 'subject possessor raising' (SPR).
Incidentally, Y OWN-X-NOM looks a better way of motivating the
development of the PIE gentive plural *-om from the Nostratic *-b
nominal plural marker than the argument Miguel put forward in
his 'Tour of Nostratic Grammar'. Extra-PIE comments to Nostratic-L,
please.
Richard.