Re: Analogy: cases & prepositions; verbal inflection & adverbs
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 11, 2000, 20:16 |
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"Anthony M. Miles" wrote:
> >From: Ed Heil <edh@...>
> >Indeed, our beloved PIE case-endings are
> >almost certainly the grammaticized remnants of fused postpositions.
> I'm curious. What else might they be, other than fused pre/postpositions?
> Alterations of previous case endings?
Perhaps. Or maybe, nominal stem allomorphs which began to be generalized
into other functions, like case, number, etc.
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