*ǵʰésr̥'s inflection

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

Then attribute the reconstruction to Kloekhorst just like it was done in Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ with Sihler, or erase the This noun needs an inflection-table template. message. It's useless to have it if you'll delete the template when they do add one.

Setting aside the topic of *ǵʰésr̥, I've been looking for evidence that the *-ti- suffixed nouns where truly proterokinetic, but I haven't been able to find a single full grade in the root of any of the descendants. Maybe you could help me.

Tom 144 (talk)21:55, 19 November 2017

Tom, not to go into great detail, but it is a matter of some scholarly debate at the moment of whether proterokinetic inflections exist at all. While the Erlangen and Leiden models reconstruct them, compositional models like those favored by Kiparsky, Halle, and Probert neither predict nor accept the existence of proterokinetic inflection. There has actually been a recent concerted effort by some to explain all proposed evidence for that paradigm (or indeed for paradigmatic inflection itself). We give the proterokinetic inflections here for *-tis, *-tus, *-us, and *-mn̥ because it is the traditional model, but there is in truth little unproblematic evidence to support the proposed paradigm. I might take a look at this Kiparsky paper to see this alternative view.

JohnC507:39, 20 November 2017

Thank you for the reply, I'll look into it.

Tom 144 (talk)00:07, 21 November 2017