Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)

Could you elaborate on your noun class theory?
To me, s-mobile means something like German "echt"
--like an intensifying adjective or adverb


--- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > What is "s mobile" ?
> >
> > A standard feature of orthodox PIE. Some roots
> appear both
> > with and without initial *s, e.g., *(s)teg- 'to
> cover' (Gk.
> > <stégo:>, Skt. <sthagati> 'to cover, conceal',
> Lat. <tego:>,
> > OIr <tech> 'house', ON <þekja> 'to thatch', etc.).
> >
> > Brian
> > =========
> > Tsalam? t?ob
> >
> > How do you explain
> > that the phoneme with no grammatical status
> > can be there or not be there ?
> >
> > Which languages in the real world do that ?
>
> Sanskrit perhaps. I know there are variants with and
> without s-mobile
> in that language. There are Germanic variants as
> well, IIRC. Like *d-,
> I propose that the s-mobile was a noun class prefix.
> It appears
> frequently on verbs because of agreement with noun
> class.
>
>

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