Re: [tied] The "Mother" Problem

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> What comes from a maker is made; what comes from a baker is baked.
> There's nothing to it. I do not see any basis for the assessment
> of the to-participle as collective.
>
> Jens

I also forgot to mention something. What do you (and others) think
of the possibility that the 3sg verbal inflection is in fact an
agent-noun formation of this type? That is, the *-t 3sg suffix is
the same as the *-t nomen agentis suffix?

- Rob