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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Harald Hammarström <haha2581@...>
wrote:
> > (*<ta dváraN> => *<taN dváraN> > <tU dvorU>), or how Baltic came
to lose
> > the neuter gender altogether.
>
> Speaking of which, are there any non-Germanic, non-Anatolian IE
languages
> that merged the three genders into neuter vs. non-neuter? (i.e not
> into masc. vs. fem).
> /H
Not that I've heard of.
On the general topic of "suspicious creolisation", I read somewhere
in a book on Latviann that the verbs of the Curonian dialect of
Latvian have lost all inflection for number and person.
And on the general topic of "suspicious Anatolian features in
northern Europe" there's the 3rd sg. -s of (northern) English, and of
North Germanic, and the '-t' of Englsh 2nd sg. 'art', 'wast', 'wert',
which are supposed to be documented late in the history of that
language (thus coming from 'below'?).
Torsten