Re: [tied] Re: PIE Word Formation Q&A (1)

On Pet, travanj 7, 2006 3:29 pm, Rob reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapović <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>>
>> > Alright, I will. In the meantime, however, how much support is
> > > there for that analysis in the attested descendant languages?
>>
>> What analysis? One finds *-eh2 in o-stems for the collective and
> > *-V:C elsewhere in archaisms together with *-eh2 which is, as
> > already said, secondary.
>
> I am asking for systematic examples of these *-V:C "archaisms". Is it
> that difficult for you to provide some?

Systematic examples? I already provided some and there are plenty more in
the handbooks. I am currently not at home and thus away from my library.
So if you want additional examples, please - do help your self.
Collectives in *-V:C are certainly not anything unusual...

>> > What is this "mixing" of which you speak? Languages (better,
> > > speakers of languages) don't throw things together haphazardly.
>>
>> Again, check any handbook... "Mixing" is not the right name for it
> > in English (I cannot remember the exact term right now and I have
> no > literature handy), but it's a known phenomenon.
>
> As far as I know, no such phenomena as general "mixing" is recognized
> in linguistics.

As far as you know...

Mate