动词位于句末(主宾动语序)。第一人称将第一人称代词**mi加在动词上形成；相似地，第二人称加**ti。没有第三人称后缀[或者没有能构拟出来的形式]，第三人称过去时后缀为**-di(伊利希-斯维蒂奇 1971, pp. 218–19)。动词有主动语态和被动语态、使役、愿望语气和反身；大部分类都有特殊标记。名词可分为有生名词和无生名词，每类的复数标记都不同。格标记有主格、宾格、方位格和携格附着语素助词等等。代词区分直接与间接、有生与无生、近指与远指、包含与排除等。显然没有前缀。诺斯特拉语词汇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（英语）. 另一方面，Comrie直截了当地认为，对于他自己提出的阿尔泰语系、乌拉尔语系和印欧语系代词系统的相似性这个问题，“我不知道”。该卷中其他不可知论者，如Ringe、Vine、Campbell，甚至还有Hamp都论证，此假说至少确实在被专攻印欧语和乌拉尔语的怀疑论者认真对待。诺斯特拉理论存在得够久、被讨论得够充分，以至于有些人认为语系间的亲缘关系已被建立了。
Greenberg 2005:159。另见Saussure对比较语言学创始者Franz Bopp的评论，在此之前Saussure描述了Cœurdoux和威廉·琼斯发现印欧语系的历程：“Bopp的创意非常棒。他值得赞扬的地方不是发现了梵语和其他欧洲语言间的亲缘关系，而是构想出了已确定分类的语言间具体有着什么样的关系的一个研究主题。”(来自R. Engler的笔记，由Tullio De Mauro引用于他的评述版Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale, Paris: Payot, 1972, p. 412; cp. Cours p. 14.)
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