[tied] Re: -i, -u

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:

>
> >From: enlil@...
> >
> >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.
>
> I am not sure yu could call them suffixes. True, they do come at

the end of

> the word, but other than that they do not behave as suffixes. They

take the

> same case as the word they modify
>
> For instance:
>
> atti-mi
> attis-mis
>
> and so on. They behave just like any other adjective. The only

difference

> appears to be an orthographic one. To call it a suffix, one would

not expect

> both the word and word suffixed to take case endings.
>

I could easily postulate a development from non case-corresponce to
case correspondence. It seemed to have been a trend in PIE.
Linguists have claimed worse.

Torsten