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

I believe Avestan has examples of subjects in gen.pl.

BTW the PIE nom *-s, gen. *-Vs looks suspicious, especially since an
accusative language like PIE should have an unmarked nom., like Uralic.


Torsten