On Wed, 19 May 2004 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT),
enlil@... wrote:
>Miguel:
>> We have nom. dual thematic *-eh3
>
>No only you do.
Not at all. *-eh3 is a standard reconstruction. I'm amazed
that you think it's my idea.
To go no further than the people on this group, two years
ago Jens wrote: "A popular theory will have it that the dual
marker of non-neuters in PIE was *-H1, or an alternation of
*-H1e and *-H1. The paper aims to demonstrate that this
theory runs counter to both facts and theories of a more
basic character. Instead, a case will be made for /H3/ as
the real underlying marker, and for the assumption of
non-alternating *-e (without laryngeal) as its most
prominent word-final manifestation."
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/pdfs/IEC/IEC14/Rasmussen_J_2002.pdf
As Jens says in that abstract, and as I said in the part you
snipped, *h3 is demanded by the personal pronouns. For the
thematic NA dual, *-oh3 is the only possibility if we take
the thematic vowel rule seriously: *h1 and *h2 are
voiceless, so they would have given *-eh1 > -e: and *-eh2 >
-a:. Only *h3 could have given -o: (both by its colouring
effect and by its voicedness).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...