Re: Ex Libris; the book is for

> May I ask about the reason for the reconstruction of the nominative
> marker as *-z? Is this just my theory, or have you have had similar
> thoughts yourself? If it is my teaching, I will like to make it
> clear that I see no reason to posit *-z for the stage of PIE that we
> reconstruct on comparative basis, I merely see a need to derive some
> sibilants from *-z at an earlier stage. Do you see a need for a PIE
> synchronic phoneme /z/?

But if it did exist, it would come in most handy to explain North
Germanic nom.pl. and 2nd sg. (> 3rd sg.) -r (R) from -z.


Torsten