動詞位於句末(主賓動語序)。第一人稱將第一人稱代詞**mi加在動詞上形成;相似地,第二人稱加**ti。沒有第三人稱後綴[或者沒有能構擬出來的形式],第三人稱過去時後綴為**-di(伊利希-斯維蒂奇 1971, pp. 218–19)。動詞有主動語態和被動語態、使役、願望語氣和反身;大部分類都有特殊標記。名詞可分為有生名詞和無生名詞,每類的複數標記都不同。格標記有主格、賓格、方位格和攜格附着語素助詞等等。代詞區分直接與間接、有生與無生、近指與遠指、包含與排除等。顯然沒有前綴。諾斯特拉語詞彙were either equal to roots or built by adding endings or suffixes. There are some cases of word composition...
Salmons, Joseph C.; Joseph, Brian D. Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence. John Benjamins Publishing. 1998. ISBN 978-90-272-3646-3(英語). 另一方面,Comrie直截了當地認為,對於他自己提出的阿爾泰語系、烏拉爾語系和印歐語系代詞系統的相似性這個問題,「我不知道」。該卷中其他不可知論者,如Ringe、Vine、Campbell,甚至還有Hamp都論證,此假說至少確實在被專攻印歐語和烏拉爾語的懷疑論者認真對待。諾斯特拉理論存在得夠久、被討論得夠充分,以至於有些人認為語系間的親緣關係已被建立了。
Greenberg 2005:159。另見Saussure對比較語言學創始者Franz Bopp的評論,在此之前Saussure描述了Cœurdoux和威廉·瓊斯發現印歐語系的歷程:「Bopp的創意非常棒。他值得讚揚的地方不是發現了梵語和其他歐洲語言間的親緣關係,而是構想出了已確定分類的語言間具體有着什麼樣的關係的一個研究主題。」(來自R. Engler的筆記,由Tullio De Mauro引用於他的評述版Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale, Paris: Payot, 1972, p. 412; cp. Cours p. 14.)
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