Re: [tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

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From: Rob

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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 7:24 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> I fail to see how singularity correlates to nomen actionis and
> plurality correlates to nomen agentis.
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> Patrick:
> Well, then, let me recategorize as punctual vs. durative. Can you
> recognize that difference between the two forms?
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No, I cannot.  From what I understand, *bhorós is more original,
with *bhóros being a later development (possibly a back-formation). 
Thus, the two do not seem to have been coined at the same time.

> Yet that is not what we see, is it?  Do we not see sg. *wé:kWs vs.
> pl. *wékWes?  To my knowledge, the nominative plural ending is   
> never accented.
 

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Patrick:

 

In order for plural -*e-s to exist, the -*e must have been, at some early period, stress-accented.

 

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