Re: [tied] PIE athematic neuters

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 43767
Date: 2006-03-10

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:01:25 -0500, andrew jarrette
<jarretteandrew@...> wrote:

>I'm embarrassed to have to be asking this, but please, what
>is meant by the term "athematic neuters"? Until now I have
>only heard of the adjective "athematic" describing verbs.

The thematic vowel occurs both in verbs (bher-o:, bher-e-s,
etc.) and nouns (h1ek^w-o-s, h1ek^w-o-m, h1ek^w-e). Forms
without thematic vowel are athematic, so in the case of
nouns/adjectives "athematic" means, strictly, all except
o-stems (and perhaps ah2-stems). But the i- and u-stems can
be said to have a kind of "theme vowel" as well, so your
typical 'athematic neuter' is a C-stem neuter.


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