Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
> On Sri, sijeèanj 9, 2008 1:08 am, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > There are some things in Slavic that are reminiscent of similar
> > features in Fennic, ie. the use of the genitive in Slavic and the
> > partitive in Fennic in negative contexts, where the rest of IE
> > would use a nominative (afaIk).
>
> Use of genitive/partitive in partitive contexts also connects some
> Slavic languages/dialects with Fennic (Finnish, Estonian...) with
> French (de-construction) and Basque. But this should be just
> typology.

Hm. How do you render 'eë net doma' in French with a genitive?

> > Also, Estonian (and the rest of Fennic?) has
> > a special verb sajama for precipitation, Russian (and Slavic?)
> > uses the standard IE movement verb *i- "go" for precipitation,
> > where the rest of IE has kept separate verbs for rain, snow etc.
>
> Other Slavic languages use also verbs derived from the nouns
> (*snì¾iti < *snìgU "snow", *dUzdjiti < *dUzdjI "rain") or the verb
> "fall".

How are the two cases distributed?


Torsten