Re: PIE athematic neuters

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> Here's something that puzzles me: PIE athematic neuters seem to

show an

> regularly added extra mora in the vocalism of their nom./acc.sg.,

and it

> isn't clear to me what kind of process may be responsible for this

extra

> length. I know that Jens explains some of the forms in question as

old

> collectives with final *h2, but I have several reservations

concerning

> this explanation.
>

I saw a side remark in an article by Kordtland that Holger Pedersen
proposed that animate nominatives (in -s) were originally genitives
and inanimate ones were instrumentals. But then they must have ended
in -h1, or?


Torsten