Re: IE thematic wovels

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 441
Date: 2001-11-26

Miguel:
>In every language I've ever studied[...] whenever
>a certain class of nouns and/or adjectives shows pronominal-like
>endings, it's because historically a demonstrative pronoun *was*
>affixed to the nominal root (as a definite article).

Frankly, the chaos of your mind scares me at times.

Since the thematic vowel is clearly NOT an ending and because
it is intrinsically part of the stem, your reasoning fails yet
again. Give it up.

- love gLeN



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