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

>From: "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Analogy: cases & prepositions; verbal inflection & adverbs
>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:16:57 -0500
>
>"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.
I think I may have written about nominal stem allomorphs for Gweinic without
knowing its name (very easy to do in a conlang).
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