Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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

The features I mentioned I saw someone propose as evidence of Fennic
substrate of Russian but give up exactly since the features were
pan-Slavic. So I thought: why not pan-Slavic substrate (and now
obviously it must be Balto-Slavic).
Similarly someone disproved English as a creole by pointing out that
Dutch, Low German, Continental Scandinavian had similar creolization;
the solution is that all North Europe, not just Britain had the same
substrate.


Torsten