[tied] Re: IE lexical accent

From: mcvwxsnl
Message: 33541
Date: 2004-07-16

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> 2a. **/bara kewanata/
> 'He carried (intr), a dog (partitive)'
> Sentence is disjointed

Worse, so must the dog be: disjointed and dismembered ("je porte du
chien"?).

> In AfroAsiatic, the absolutive forms of the pronouns were prefixed
> to form the stative conjugation.

The (Northern) Afro-Asiatic stative is suffixed, and has nothing to
do with the personal pronouns:
*malika-ku "I am king"
*malika-(t/k)a "you are king"
*malika "he is king"
etc.