Re: [tied] Re: Thematic vowel etc

From: Exu Yangi
Message: 33860
Date: 2004-08-25

>From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

>I've reassigned *t-, *s-, *y- of the demonstratives to be sentence
>connectives, as they are in Hittite. The result of that is that
>demonstratives consist of *s-, *t-, *y-, which are non-syllabic,
>plus suffix. Inevitably the result of that composition must be
>stressed on the suffix.
>

If you are going to do that, then you are either going to have to include
nu- (which I assume you are deriving from *n- ) or explain its absense.