Re: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:16:36 -0700 (PDT),
enlil@... wrote:

>Miguel:
>> 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.
>
>If I remember correctly Diakonoff had reconstructed *?a-, *ta- and *ya-
>for the 1p, 2p and 3p singular statives.

You remember incorrectly. Diakonoff, and everyone else,
reconstructs *?a-, *ta-, *ya- as the active (both transitive
and intransitive) prefixes, as opposed to the suffixes of
the stative.

It's possible that there was a distinction between the
transitive and intransitive active prefixes:

intr: *?a-, *ta-, *ya-; *ni-, *ti-, *yi-

tr: *?u-, *tu-, *yu-; *nu-, *tu-, *yu-

>A quick glance however tells me that this is just a denominal verb.

No, it's the stative. Read any Akkadian grammar.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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