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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-06-24 00:32, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > I've somehow developed this crazy idea that the ppp ending is
> > really *-dhó- and that *-tó- is an allomorph that developed in
> > certain contexts and was later (almost) generalized. I know you
> > are capable of shooting that down, but I was wondering how you'd
> > go about it?
>
> Just show me how you get *-tó- out of *-dHó- ;-)
I hoped you'd never ask ;-)
since it's kind of half-baked yet.
1) I think the thematic tomós/tómos types are generalizations of an
athematic type *tóms/*tomós, itself by decomposition of compounds
where it is *´-toms, *-tmós (hence the -o-); the ppp *-tó- is
similarly from nom. *´-t-s-, gen. *-t-ós
2) It is not normal for an accusative language like PIE to have a
suffixed, hence marked nominative; I think PIE once had a non-suffixed
nominative and that the PIE nominative is a specialization of the
pre-PIE genitive (from which descends also the PIE genitive) in the
partitive sense; in the case of the ppp this nominative was *´-t (the
PIE nominative being *´-t-s
3) This *-t was an allopohone of *-dh, the original ending, after
stems ending in non-voiced consonants.
So?
Torsten