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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主要作者: Peyrot, Michaël (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Brill 2018
In: Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2018, 卷: 61, 發布: 2, Pages: 118-130
Further subjects:B Indo-Iranian reconstruction historical morphology genitive plural East Iranian Proto-Indo-European
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總結: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.
ISSN:1572-8536
Contains:In: Indo-Iranian journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06102003