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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> Is the current state of things things really so bad?
I think it is pretty gloomy. You don't realize that because you are a
very enlightened person.
> I think the main
> arguments for and against either view are rather well known to all
the
> interested parties and the lack of consensus results simply from the
> hard-to-resolve internal conflict in the evidence.
Well, one of the pieces of evidence that tends to be dismissed
instead of discussed is the type "Sadko", which is indeclinable in
much of Slavic, hence looks like a case form that has been divorced
from its original paradigm. If it directly continues the Nsg in -o it
becomes completely unproblematic, if it is not, what is it and how do
we account for the fact that it is indeclinable?
Another type of example is ko-z^d-.
There are several types of OCS examples that should by now have been
discussed exhaustively from a philological point of view but somehow
haven't.
The overall complexity of competing views is hardly ever assessed and
objectified, which sets up a bias in favour of views that are common
in handbooks purely because they are didactically convenient.
I mean, I respect your view and I don't intend to argue against it
(particularly because you may recall I have introduced the hypothesis
that word-final *os yields -o only for the sake of the argument), but
yes, I do tend to think things are pretty bleak.
It isn't your fault,
Best,
Willem