Re: Uralic-Yukaghir, Chukchi-Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut

>>Miguel states that *N can't occur word-finally...
>
>Not me, but the Uralicist Pekka Sammallahti.

I know that. Apperently you've never seen a mediopassive verb
before :P

>>but if we really think about it, one is hard-pressed to find
>>words with final *-t, yet it exists as a plural marker.
>
>he's not talking just about lexical words, he is including the
>evidence from grammatical suffixes.

He is including the evidence from grammatical suffixes... that
he's _aware_ of.

>Nouns, adjectives and verbal roots almost always end in a vowel
>(among the list of polysyllabic PU words given by Sammallahti,
>only k�l�w, natiw, weNiw (w�Niw) [various in-laws] and t�wiw
>(tewiw) "lung", end in a consonant).

...Although, most others don't even reconstruct this terminating
consonant in these words.

>Hungarian 1sg. -k can come from PU *-g or *-k, I suppose. Eskimo
>has 1sg. -ka, Aleut has -N (< *-k), PIE has *-h2 (< -k) (stative),
>Afro-Asiatic has *-k (stative).

The IE perfect is *-xa (*-H2a) and not **-H2. It would be nice
if you could get your facts straight before trying your hand at
reconstruction.

- love gLeN


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