[tied] Re: -i, -u

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> Torsten:
> > Ah, nostalgia. I'm reminded of myself your age: young, talented,
> > dogmatic. I'm glad you havent't entered politics.
>
> I won't enter politics as long as you don't enter spelling bees

<:O

> By the way, would all Americans please stop being so Republican-

loving,

> born-again pseudo-Christians and smoke more pot like us Canadians.

Maybe

> it would finally lower your per-capita murder rates. Thanx a

bunch ;P

>
>
> > Interesting that you should say that, since I just discovered at
> > least one IE language has possesive suffixes, namely Hittite.
>
> And considering that Hittite possessive suffixes are unrelatable to
> the rest of IE and since they can be explained without theorizing

any

> in IE itself, your pointless point is pointlessly pointless in a
> pointless manner of speaking. As I said earlier, the fact that the
> non-indicative lacks any locative marker of any kind and the fact
> that there is nothing less verbal about the n-ind. than the ind.

means

> that you're, as is your wonderfully offbeat character, the product
> of out-of-control imagination. There is no factual base to begin

with

> to justify your ideas no matter how interesting they are. I just

don't

> see it.
>
>

As I theorised before:
the verb stem is of type gerund, thus <NP>
the suffixes -m, -t, -s are personal suffixes, of type <NP -> NP>
therefore
the verb stem exended with -m, -t, -s is of type gerund, thus <NP>
those extensions, extended with locative -i, are gerunds in the
locative, thus of type <adv>.
And
since the non-indicative forms occur mainly in subordinate clauses,
they should be understood as originally constructions with gerunds.

Example:
With prepositions, English prefers gerund constructions
'I'm tired of him arriving late'

Danish prefers dependent clause constructions
'Jeg er træt af, at han kommer for sent'


Torsten

BTW Do you yourself see a causal connection between your smoking pot
and the quality of your linguistic theories? ;-)