Re: [tied] Re: Morphology (2/20)

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 00:14:33 -0000, "sergejus_tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

>May be the following fact about Krivichian will be of some interest
>to you. According to Zalizniak, in Krivichian -0 is predominant, but -
>tI occurs in some cases as well (despite what I wrote in the previous
>posting for the sake of simplicity). The distribution seemes to be as
>follows:
>1. -0 is predominant in conditional clauses, also in adverbial,
>purposive and complement subordinate clauses, -0 is not predominant
>in other types of sentences.
>2. -tI is predominant before pronominal enclitics
>(_s'a_,_t'a_,_m'a_,_si_,_ti_,_mi_) and enclitic particle _ti_.
>If that distribution reflects something really old, it could indeed
>be about subjunctive or other PIE verbal category.

That is certainly most interesting, especially point (1), which indeed suggests
that the -0 form reflects an old subjunctive (thematic *-et > PSlav. *-e).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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