Re: [tied] PIE grammar made simple (1)

At 4/26/01 09:58 PM +0200, you wrote:

>The durative includes imperfective or progressive meanings (prolonged,
>continuous or incomplete actions) and may also refer to repeated or
>habitual activity. It has preterite forms (a.k.a. imperfects) and
>present-tense forms (known as presents, for the sake of brevity).
>
>The aorist expresses perfective or non-progressive meanings (completed
>actions). It does its job mainly in the preterite tense, where it
>functions rather like the English past simple.

Sounds like the distinction between IE aorist/durative is quite similiar to
that between Slavic perfect/imperfect aspects. Is it coincidence or can the
disticntion be traced from IE to Slavic?

>Comments, corrections and questions welcome. If you like this crash
>course, I will convert the whole thing into HTML format and place it in
>the Cybalist "files" section.
>

Please do!

Andrei