On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:26 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
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fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>An example of *dz is causative
>Tokharian -s-
>Eastern PIE -y-
>Anatolian -zz-
>This is not three morphemes
>but three reflexes of one phoneme.
>Orthodox PIE phonology is stupid
>to the point of
>not seeing what PIE morphology is.
The Tocharian causative-iterative -s.ä- is at least in part
derived from the PIE durative-iterative in *-sk^é/ó- (the
other part comes from *-sé/ó-), which is attested in most
other branches, and is productive as an iterative in
Hittite. The root is in zero grade.
The iterative-causative in all other branches of
Indo-European (Anatolian and Tocharian excepted) is
*-éih1-e/o-, with o-grade (occasionally zero-grade) of the
root.
Hittite uses *-sk^é- as the iterative, and -nu- as the
causative (PIE *-néu-/*-nu-, root zero grade). I have no
idea what -zz- is supposed to mean.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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