Re: [tied] PIE athematic neuters

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From: Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
Reply-To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE athematic neuters
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:37:35 +0100

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:38:44 -0500, andrew jarrette
<jarretteandrew@...> wrote:

>May I ask whether you know how many C-stem neuters there were in IE,
>both simple C-stems and r-stems (and any other affixed consonants).
>And if it's possible to find out, I would love to know about how many
>neuter i-stems and u-stems there were in IE.
>In all cases I presume there were but a handful of each.

It's of course impossible to give absolute numbers.  Neuter
i-stems and u-stems were relatively rarer than m/f i- and
u-stems (and I suspect that most neuter u-stems were in fact
r/n-heteroclitics).

C-stem neuters were more common, with a few gaps in the
distribution due to soundlaws in the Auslaut (e.g. no n-stem
neuters, except after /m/).


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Thanks.  But why do you suspect that most neuter u-stems were actually r/n heteroclitics?  I fail to see the connection.

Andrew Jarrette

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