Re: Thalassan Possessive Suffixes

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:18:08 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>I said it seemed odd, not infeasible or unnatural - that's why I asked if
>it was a regular development in the language. One could certainly think up
>scenarios in which such an outcome would be regular - I was wondering if
>he'd done so, or if was an irregular reduction of these particular clitics.
>
>                                                                Andreas
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I suppose it's more or less irregular, although other pronominal endings
are affected in this way too.  Namely, the 1st and 2nd-person singular
endings, *-mi and *-thi, respectively (from enclitic subject pronouns
*mi/*thi) became *-m and *-t(h), ultimately _-n_ and _-t_.  However, this
happened long before the enclitic possessive and object pronouns got
formed, so the processes are not quite the same.

- Rob