... I cannot see the basis for calling it "thematic": -as is the genitive ending of *all* nouns in Hittite, regardless of stem class. With that in mind one...
On Sat, 01 May 2004 10:18:58 +0200, Mate Kapovic ... Yes. ... Since Gaul. <sosio> is NA n. sg. "this"(*), and not a genitive, it suggests that whatever the...
... It is so in the sense that in the languages of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia the usage of classifiers is a very developed feature. But really, something...
... Mandarin, ... Eastern Asia the usage of classifiers is a very developed feature. But really, something similar is attested also in many other languages,...
... The likeliest date the Nostratic splitting into PIE etc is when north Europe and Central Asia became inhabitable as the Ice Age ended. After then, we need...
... class. ... Yes you did, and that makes it twisted. Wastul- is a consonant stem, so there is no reason to expect it to have *thematic* endings. And when you...
... Eastern Asia the usage of classifiers is a very developed feature. But really, something similar is attested also in many other languages, including some...
On Sun, 02 May 2004 13:44:50 +0000, elmeras2000 ... I see now. I had misunderstood Bader's description, which sounded to me as if <wastulas> "sinner" was a...
... That is because it is unambiguous what "a milk" is. If milk came in several sizes of containers, people would not be so eager to leave out the name of the...
... Likely one reason why in modern Chinese classifiers with numbers is compulsory, is because as ancient Chinese slowly evolved into modern Chinese, it became...
I'm reading Jasanoff's "Hittite and the IE Verb". Couple of questions: (1) On p. 3, it's said that "the clearest instance of such an aorist-based mi-verb is...
... What makes you averse to it? There does not seem to be any rule causing an alternation between full-grade te- + C and ter- + vowel and zero-grade tar-,...
On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:58:10 +0000, elmeras2000 ... English 'put' can also be applied to speaking. That's not the problem. Suppletion does occur in verbs of...
On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:04:50 +0000, elmeras2000 ... So what's your opinion on a PIE pf. 1pl. *-meH? If I'm not mistaken, I've also see Rgvedic instances of ...
... the breakup of >Proto-Indo-European around 8000 years bp. For instance, R. Gray and Q. Atkinson Gray & Atkinson's article has received some very negative...
... <historynow2002@y...> wrote: Jon, Interestingly, this discussion from about 100 years ago seems very much like your viewpoint (but not quite). Actually, it...
... wrote: Michael wrote ... 10 ... Michael, if this is so we must remember that the Ph in Caphtor is the Greek Phi, equivalent to the English F. Thus if you...
... wrote: Michael wrote ... Michael I can see it is true that one of the names by which Egyptians referred to their country was "Hwt-ka-Ptah" (Ht-ka-Ptah, or...
... <mattfeld12@c...> wrote: Caphtor According to Genesis 10:14, the Philistines are the descendants of Ham, father of Egypt, father of the Casluhim, of which...
... <mytoyneighborhood@s...> wrote: Dear Jon, George, John, Walter and everyone else at ABH, Manuel Robbins from his book "Collapse of the Bronze Age": "The...
... <mytoyneighborhood@s...> wrote: Hi, this is the second e-mail of Manuel Roberts quotes continuing from the last one: "In the tomb of Amenuser, the usual...
... <jdcroft@y...> wrote: ... clearly relates to the Sea Peoples, and in particular to the Philistines." Others dispute this. Crete is one of the homes of...
... <jdcroft@y...> wrote: ... shown. Based on the wavy locks down the back of one individual, the open kilt, bare chest, the bull head objectwhich he offers,...
... <jdcroft@y...> wrote: Aha! lookwhoscross-eyednow@j... is a Michael. Hi Michael, ... in Egypt. It contains a scribal exercise titled "to make names in ...
... ... Michael, If you want to direct our attention to a discussion taking place on another forum, just post a link and a brief description of the topic. ...
