Re: [tied] Greek+Slavic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

>
> OK. I don't know what is the situation in Old Prussian. I guess

there's no

> trace of 3. pl. there as well.

Well, I do. The third person is used of all numbers there too.

> >And what's the benefit of that if there are Pan-Baltic
> > exclusive innovations?
>
> Are there? Many would say that there was no separate Proto-Baltic

and that

> Balto-Slavic should be divided to Western B., Eastern B. and

Slavic. I

> don't have a firm opinion in this matter though.

Using the third person for all numbers is certainly an innovation
that unites precisely what is generally called Baltic to the
exclusion of Slavic. It is however the only one I can think of at
the moment. I think the firm opinion will have to be that what
unites Western Baltic and Eastern Baltic is not zero, but quite
close to it.

Jens