Linguistica (Dec 1981)

The indo-european third person plural verbal suffix

  • Kenneth Shields

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.21.1.105-118
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 1

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In this paper it is suggested that the original form of the Indo­ European third person plural verbal suffix was *-(e/o)N and that the nasal element which appears in this suffix was or ginally a deictic particle with 'there and then' signification.

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