Re: PIE athematic neuters

From: Rob
Message: 43787
Date: 2006-03-12

--- 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 hope I'm not exhuming a dead horse here, but what is the evidence
for this extra length in nom./acc. sg.?

- Rob