On the East Iranian Genitive Plural Ending
The Khotanese and Sogdian genitive plural endings cannot be satisfactorily explained from the traditionally posited ending *-nām. Instead, Khotanese -nu and Sogdian -nw point to *-nam. Instead of assuming a special rule that shortens the expected *-nām to *-nam, it is argued that the evidence from E...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2018
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Indo-Iranian journal
Jahr: 2018, Band: 61, Heft: 2, Seiten: 118-130 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Indo-Iranian reconstruction
historical morphology
genitive plural
East Iranian
Proto-Indo-European
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Zusammenfassung: | The Khotanese and Sogdian genitive plural endings cannot be satisfactorily explained from the traditionally posited ending *-nām. Instead, Khotanese -nu and Sogdian -nw point to *-nam. Instead of assuming a special rule that shortens the expected *-nām to *-nam, it is argued that the evidence from East Iranian is to be taken at face value. A short ending *-om can be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European as well and the East Iranian reflexes of a short ending are probably an archaism. |
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ISSN: | 1572-8536 |
Enthält: | In: Indo-Iranian journal
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06102003 |