Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 18, 1999, 8:59 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> BTW, has anyone heard of a theory which would say that PIE was an active
> language that evolved to accusative somewhere (most IE languages) and to
> ergative somewhere else (Hittite and Anatolian languages)? I've just had
> this idea and I don't find it unlikely. It's just an idea I had when
> writing this post, so maybe it has already been argued against, but I don't
> know.
Here's a site that has some information about early PIE. It
doesn't seemt to indicate anything about an active state,
though:
<http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/9766/indoeuro/>
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