ABSTRACT
Rather,itmerelydisappeared,andtheformsin~arosefromadifferentsource.
ThisEnglishexampleillustratesadifficultythatiseverpresent inhistoricalwork,namely,thematterofidentitythroughtime.How doweknowthathimselfisnotacontinuationof*sik,thatis,that
thesamestrategy?Thisquestionisfurtherhighlightedwhenwecompare
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lSGNOM lSGACC EMPH purify+ PRES
but wonderfully much humble+PAST Christ 3MSG+ACC EMPH
Thisissimplybecausethesyntaxofastrategycanchange.Forex-
ample,anon-SAcompoundstrategymightturnintoanSAverbalstrategy.
issubjecttochange;infact,thereisapronominalreflexivedescendantof*sikwhichisusedinallpersons,namelyYiddishzix.Again,
