... find ... Laugh all you like, the code appears to have been partly cracked now by a young candidate student of my own. The IE initial clusters have been...
... it ... willing ... Sorry, I meant "who is willing ...". I have come across all sorts of opponents on the list, but I have no reason to treat you as ...
Vocative for masculine sg. in Rom. is "-e" , for feminine sg. "ã" or "o". Until here nothing new, I remember we discussed these once as I questioned the...
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DRINON (today Dri, ~ni) and DRILON, two river names, attested from ancient times, I think that are close related to PIE root *rei- `to flow, run'. Suffixed...
... of ... I'm sure we all though you were just following common usage! I for one can remember having my English corrected when I used 'which' for people....
Hi, Brittonic and Gaulish are said to be almost the same, with minor differences. Can the same be said of Celtiberian and early Irish Goidolic, and if so,...
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:06:45 +0000, Michael Smith ... The problem is that there is no "Q-Celtic" group. P-Celtic may be a valid grouping, as it's based on an...
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:55:44 +0200, alex ... Romanian -lor is historically a masculine genitive (from Latin illorum), but it's a general oblique in modern ...
... Well, in this case we have grave differences between singular and plural if we go from the same historic point. I won't wonder about Dative since in fact...
I was reading a recent paper by H. Craig Melchert (http://www.unc.edu/~melchert/anttila2.pdf) about the genitive / possessive adjective in Anatolian. In it, ...
... The genitive isn't "related" to the accusative in the pronominals. Rather these forms are the "oblique" of their nominatives because their paradigms were...
... Choose any root noun. ... Counterexample? I don't know of a clear one. ... We see an alternation of *o and *e, so that's enough problem to deal with...
... My solution pays attention to not only the evidence but to phonotactics every step of the way. There is no point adhering only to evidence if that evidence...
... I'm sure. I'll continue laughing. I've seen people try to do this before and it's a sham as always. There's far too much leeway in such a hobby to produce...
Does anyone know Jasanov's book "Hittite and the IE verb"? I saw it in a bookshop, put it back for a moment to recover from the shock of the price, and when I...
... Apologies for being boring,but I understood the "which" has nothing to do with being inanimate - that's a later change in English. Elizabethan English...
Okay. I finally uncovered the article online, Jens: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/q1025_lecture_8.pdf "In Kabardian (Caucasus) (8) the...
... or ... phenomena ... that ... effect of ... I would say it just indicated a lack of interest in the patient, which would be appropriate for something with...
... or ... phenomena ... that ... effect of ... completely ... The ... accusative ... Thank you for the clarification. I'm sure it's correct that a verbal ...
I don't know if this is a common cultural thesaurus, this is why I will try to ask here about the denomination of the elements of the house . In Rom. Lang.,...
... But there are many root nouns without length in monosyllabic forms: Lat. nex, prex, Gk. phlóks, phléps, Gk. voc. Zeu^. And if the rule is supposed to be...
I bought the book, read it and disagreed in all kinds of ways. Nevertheless, it is of course worth to check your library. You always should now bad theories as...
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:32:09 +0000, elmeras2000 ... I suppose we can agree that the *-e of the perfect endings, at least in the singular, acts in every respect...
I borrowed another book at the library (oh no!). This time on Hittite. How come *s- and t- of *so- and *to- are considered to be demonstrative stems, when they...
... That is very accurate. ... Yes, that's what it looks like. But these endings are never seen in isolation. While the perfect has the added non-ablauting *-e...
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:39:55 +0000, elmeras2000 ... The middle has zero grade (e-grade in Narten forms) and columnar accent on the endings, just like a certain...
