Re: PIE Word Formation (1)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> > > ... It also means that any instances of unstressed *e that
> > > we see must have been *late* phenomena -- i.e. they must have been
> > > developed after quantitative ablaut ceased to be productive. Two
> > > good examples here are the enclitic particle *-kWe "and", and

the > > > so-called "temporal augment", *e-.

> >
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> Devil's advocate: suppose they didn't become enclitic and augment,
> respectively, until after ablaut ceased production, but were free
> particles (cf perfect sg. suffix *-e)?

Well, that was my point. The vowel quality suggests that they were
indeed free particles until after ablaut ceased being productive (at
least, as an automatic phonetic alternation).

- Rob