Re: [tied] Re: Active / Stative

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:14:40 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Elmegaard
Rasmussen <jer@...> wrote:

>The effect of analogy could just as well be like this: *-to-syo- > *-toyo-
>> *-teyyo- (after *eyyo-, the prestage of eius) > *-teiyo- > *-ti:yo-. In
>that case it works fine, why mustn't it?

The analogical steps are completely unnecessary. It works
just fine by regular processes:

*-tosyo > *-toyyo > *-teyyo > *-ti:(y)o > -ti:us

>The derivation of Oscan -eis from
>*-esyo is itself very far from being certain. If the classical explanation
>as the ending of i-stems is correct, there are no real problems.

That doesn't explain G. O. eiseis, U. erer (< *esyo).

>I don't
>see the point in just arbitrarily picking and choosing among remote
>possibilities in such a way that morphologically sensible solutions become
>impossible.

I was about to say the same thing.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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