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

On 2006-04-05 15:58, Rob wrote:

> I am sorry, but they do not suffice for me.

You're exceptionally hard to please. What kind of evidence would you
find sufficient, if an attested pattern sufficeth not?

> On another note, isn't
> there another genitive form *tosyo for that demonstrative root?

There is. But *to-sjo can easily be analogical (after the gen.sg. of
nouns), while forms like *te-s(j)o or *kWe-s(j)o (as in Goth. þis,
OPruss. stesse, Slavic *c^eso, Hom. Gk. téo) have got no obvious
analogical source, so they're likely to be original.

> While I can readily see how word-final and/or phrase-final position
> can be special in languages, I'm having a harder time seeing that case
> with stem-final position. Is there any conclusive evidence for the
> latter?

English shows it! Isn't that conclusive enough?

Piotr