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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > *mon-h1 it¨®-
>
> *mon-h1 i-tó-
>
> that is.
I suspected that. The really bad thing is the laryngeal which is
simply excluded by the fact that causatives show the working of
Brugmann's law: ma:náyati : janáyati; ma:nitá- : janitá-. As always it
does not hold 100%, very far from it in fact, but there is an
indisputable core of forms that do comply with the rule, so there
cannot have been a laryngeal in the suffix initial. Also the function
is bizarre: causative is a strengthening of transitivity, while
stative is rather the opposite.
Jens