Re: [tied] Re: PIE Word Formation (1)

On 2006-04-04 17:50, Rob wrote:

> That's my point. Your question seems to beg another question -- is
> the pattern there?

The examples given so far should suffice. The value *e was also
originally found before the voiceless laryngeals *h1 and *h2, hence
*newah2 = *//newe-h2//. Nouns generalised *-o- already in the
protolanguage (except in the vocative and before *h2), but verbs and
pronouns follow the rule very nicely, cf. acc.m. *to-m, nom./acc.n.
*to-d, nom.pl.m. *to-i, but coll. *ta-h2, gen. *te-so, instr. *te-h1, etc.

> Are you saying that the stem-final position (wherever that may be) is
> universally special? That its specialness applies
> cross-linguistically? I don't mean to sound incredulous here -- I
> would just like some further clarification.

The _final_ position is cross-linguistically special. Whether things are
special phrase-finally, word-finally or stem-finally is a
language-specific choice.

Piotr