From: Exu Yangi
Message: 33386
Date: 2004-07-05
>From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>Perhaps like the present tense marker *-i.
>
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
>
> > > They patently adjectivise when on their own. But often they just
> > > constitute the final part of a suffix ending in a vowel. They
>also
> > > appear in the pronouns where they apparently do little more than
> > > constitute an inflectible stem.
> >
> > They adjectivize? So *bHer-e-ti is an adjective? Is the verb a
>pronoun
> > now?
>
>No, it's an old noun, and the subjunctive stem is an old adjective
>stem made from it. There are many typological parallels, I'm told.
>The one I know is from Eskimo.
>
> > > That is no valid criterion by any standard: Why can't a morpheme
> > > have the structure *-e/o-,
> >
> > It's not the case in IE. Morphemes always have at least one
>consonant.
> >
>
>How would one that doesn't look?
>Jens_________________________________________________________________
>