Re: IE & Uralic

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

>
> On Sri, sijeèanj 9, 2008 3:15 pm, ualarauans wrote:
>
> > Partitive genitive in Russian may be due to a relatively late
> > influence from the Baltic Finnish substrate.
>
> Maybe in some uses but in general no. Partitive genitive is

attested in

> Slavic in general, not just in Russian. The use of genitive

instead of

> accusative in the negative sentences seems to be a general Balto-

Slavic

> trait as well.
>
> Mate

Yes, I agree.

Ualarauans