[tied] Re: Thematic vowel etc

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

>
> >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.

Anything derived from nu- would be likely to be identified with
something negated, due to the n-. That's why it's absent.

Torsten