From: Torsten
Message: 65460
Date: 2009-11-23
> I have a suspicion that IE once had an endingless nominative, like aTorsten
> good accusative language should, and that the present -s suffix is
> the old genitive suffix which being used in bound constructions
> with formal subjects came to be seen as a nominative marker, whence
> the confusion of -s suffixed and endingless forms, which, note, is
> not constrained to IE, for some strange reason
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63871
> The same confusion is the reason for the appearance of IE s-stems (a
> nomimative in -s was reinterpreted as an endingless nominative, and
> case endings added to that.