Re: Kash Morphology: Nouns and pronouns
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 4, 2001, 6:24 |
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Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>I notice that (similar to the way it is in Indo-European), neuters, i.e.
>inanimate nouns, have morphologically identical nominatives and
>accusatives. Is this a trace of a former active system (as some
>linguists assume for Proto-Indo-European)?
>
(snip very useful and informative text, which I'll save for future
reference. Thanks)
Alas, Kash has developed without benefit of a clear proto-language (shame on
me, since that's what I really enjoy doing). At the moment I'm just
starting that work, and it's tricky going backwards..... I was familiar
with the Lehmann's theory, and may well have had it in the back of my mind.