Re: Ex Libris; the book is for

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

>
> > 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.

nom.sg.
and 2nd sg. (> 3rd sg.) -r (R) from -z.

>
>

Nonsense, I realised shortly after, since -z should appear only in
the nom.sg., but at least one might see it as a generalisation of
existing *-z in North Germanic, as opposed to *-z > *-s in other
branches.


Torsten