Re: Analogy: cases & prepositions; verbal inflection & adverbs

> Date:         Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:38:25 +0100
> From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
> By the classical period we find them used as:
> - prepositions (with pitch accent on second syllable of bisyllabic
> prepositions);
> - or postpositions (with pitch accent on first syllable if bissyllabic);
> - a prefixes to verbs.
On first reading I thought you meant that the verb-prefix function was
an innovation as well. But as far as I know, that function is ancient
in IE, shared by at least Indo-Aryan, Germanic, Celtic, and Italic.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)