From: elmeras2000
Message: 32704
Date: 2004-05-18
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
[JER:]
>> We find loc. *é-i
[MCV:]
> Where do we find that?
In IE *é-i 'then, if', Gk. ei etc. The o-stem loc. is oíkoi, but
that can be a levelled form, which the dialectal variant oikei
cannot. That presupposes a pronominal or adverbial survival of *(-)e-
i in thematic stems.
> >, and *-en-i of r/nt-stems, both with distinctly word-final
treatment of the part
> >preceding the *-i.
>
> The treatment in the r/n-stems is distinctly non-word-final:
> otherwise we would have had *-er-i.
There is room for more than just plus and minus here. The boundary
before enclitics does not have to operate just like absolute final,
nor obey word-interior rules. And in fact we know there was a some
strengthening of the articulation in that place in IE. We need room
for what we find.
Jens