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[Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen]

On Sun, 23 May 1999, petegray wrote:

> Jens said:

>> I have yet to see a really cogent argument for an IE (or pre-IE) ergative.
>> ..., but nothing to convince one that it _must_ be
>> accepted.   I'm not saying that pre-PIE was _not_ ergative, just that we
>> cannot really know. Practically all the literature on the subject ... is
>> without scholarly interest.

> I must disagree with your last point here.   An ergative description of
> early PIE or pre-PIE explains various oddities in PIE.   I agree that there
> are no arguments (yet) that it must have been ergative, and none that it
> cannot have been ergative, but in light of its explanatory potential, it
> surely is at least "interesting".

That is just about what I meant.

Jens