Pardon me, but I just recently joined this list.
I'm an amateur who has been working on PIE internal
reconstruction and was wondering if anyone has a
suggestion about where to try to publish it (or can
just tell me about a FAQ or something on the
Internet). Thanks for any help.
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enlil@... wrote:
> Piotr:
> > Right, but still *-i seems to have been some kind
> of optional enclitic
> > rather than an obligatory case ending.
I think it's possible that the present marker and
locative marker are the same (meaning "here" and
implying "now"). They would be optional (and
optionally stressed) because of recent origin as a
separate word.
> Ah. Interestingly, Etruscan has a STEM-PLURAL-CASE
> order like you
> suspect for pre-IE. However, considering that *-es
> is in my mind
> from earlier *-it (with softening of final *-t), I
> can't accept this
> and am unconvinced by the small evidence for *s/*t
> alternations based
> solely on *so & *to-, these roots being separate in
> origin.
I favor original S-P-C order, becoming confused
(and conflated) later on. However, my phonological
reconstructions are quite a bit different than others.
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