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  • I think what happened next was that, for whatever reason, bare stems were undesirable to speakers and that once former genitive-declined adjectives were misanalysed as thematic stems, this provided a means to "complete" the awkward wordform with an imaginary "inanimate nomino-accusative" pseudo-ending *-m.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • I think what happened next was that, for whatever reason, bare stems were undesirable to speakers and that once former genitive-declined adjectives were misanalysed as thematic stems, this provided a means to "complete" the awkward wordform with an imaginary "inanimate nomino-accusative" pseudo-ending *-m.

    What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics? 2008

  • Syncope would then fail to affect the final vowel in order to avoid syllabicity issues, thus a bare inanimate wordform *kérnə in the nominative and accusative cases.

    What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics? 2008

  • So a disyllabic wordform in Mid IE MIE of the shape *CVC.CV- should have preserved its final schwa because if it had disappeared, it might create problems with the distribution of the consonants in the remaining syllables1.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • So a disyllabic wordform in Mid IE MIE of the shape *CVC.CV- should have preserved its final schwa because if it had disappeared, it might create problems with the distribution of the consonants in the remaining syllables1.

    What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics? 2008

  • Syncope would then fail to affect the final vowel in order to avoid syllabicity issues, thus a bare inanimate wordform *kérnə in the nominative and accusative cases.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • You see that the word "book" of the wordform "bookshop" was not highlighted, and the words

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  • Note to that if the searched word is in the structure of the other wordform (for example the word "stand" is in the structure of the word "understand"), so the word will not be highlighted.

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