Re: Lydian

>      11. Re: Lydian
>            From: Mangiat <mangiat@...>
>Message: 11
>    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:11:18 +0100
>    From: Mangiat <mangiat@...>
>Subject: Re: Lydian
>
>Daniel wrote:
>
> > Anthony Miles wrote:
> >
> > > Noun Declensions
> > > alu- 'priest'
> > >                 Sg Common       Pl Common
> > > Nom.            alus            alvas
> >
> > I just wanted to point out that the nominative is
> > usually the unmarked case in nominative languages
> > (which I'm sure you already know), and in that case you wouldn't have to
>mark the nominative at all.
>
>Well, that's just a rule of thumb. Latin cases are _all_ marked in some
>nominal declension paradigms, and most IE languages have the same
>alternations. The root _lupo-_, for instance, (wolf) never shows up,
>indeed:
>you get _lupus_ in the nom. and _lupum_ in the acc.; you have _lupo:_ in
>the
>dat. and abl., but with a long _o:_.(well, after all saying the root never
>shows up is not completely right: you get an apophonic weak form thereof in
>the voc., _lupe_)
Neo-Lydian is a reconstruction of an extinct IE language, so I have less
flexibility than elsewhere.
>
>Luca
>
> > It could just be _alu_ (which btw means "beer"
> > in Runic Swedish :). Though there's nothing wrong with a suffix at all.
>And I don't know the diachronics of Lydian, it was just something I thought
>of when reading through the sketch.
The diachronics are pretty shaky; a lot of my work is guesswork.
> >
> > Daniel Andreasson
> >
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> > http://www.conlanglinks.tk
>

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