Re: YAC: a couple of questions

Luca hat geschrieben:

> Now I'd like to have a system looking and working more like in German,
> where adjectival and nominal inflections take different endings: das
> schöne Haus, des schönen Hauses, ein schönes Haus, schöner Häuser,
> schönstem Hause etc. Where are these endings from? How did they generate?
IIRC, the endings on Haus come from the original PIE noun/adjective endings
of whatever declension. The "weak" adjective endings come from PIE n-stem
endings (this derivation of n-stem words from other declensions occurs in a
number of IE languages, for various purposes). The "strong" adjective
endings come from a pronominal declension; apparently certain pronouns were
placed after adjectives in Germanic, similar to what happened in Slavic.

Jeff