LL-L "Grammar" 2002.04.09 (07) [E]

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From: "Leonard Okhotchinski" <ok_lennie at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2002.04.04 (01) [A/Ap/E/LS]

Ron wrote:
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>Leonard, this is probably also what happened to the "weird" cases in
>Russian you referred to, cases that nowadays look like genitive (_doma_)
>or instrumental (_zimoj_, _utrom_), though I do not find it implausible
>that the instrumental case once included "temporal location" ("with the
>winter" = 'in winter', "with the morning" = 'in the morning').  In
>Germanic you get cases that look like genitive but are really ancient
>"temporal locatives" (e.g., German _sonntags_ 'on Sundays', _morgens_
>'in the morning', even more so in archaic German _des morgens_ and in
>Low Saxon _'s morgens_ 'in the morning').  I believe that Hebrew
>_habayta_ for 'at home' (< _ha-bayit_ 'the house/home'), that you
>mentioned, is another petrified ancient form with little or no traces of
>a paradigm left in known language.  (Or could it be an Aramaic loan?)

It's not an Aramaic loan, the "-a" is, indeed, a petrified accusative.
Of
course, most abnormal forms can be explained historically, but my point
was
that words with certain meanings tend to retain their archaic forms.
Thus,
my hypothesis is that the word for "home" will be irregular in a large
number of languages regardless of their genetic affiliation.

Sorry it took me so long to reply

Leonard Okhotchinski
Moscow

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