On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:29:26 +0000, "Glen Gordon" <
glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>Miguel:
>Just a simple question: How does the hi-conjugation
>represent the "stative"? Are all hi-verbs statives?? It
>sounds like we are assuming that the mi-conjugation is
>active while the hi-conjugation is stative. Why?
The vast majority of the "stative" verbs in Hittite are in the hi-conjugation
(sakk- "to know", ses- "to sleep', es- "to sit", etc.), but also a considerable
number of semantically "active" verbs (pai-/piya- "to give", or da:- "to take",
for instance). What I was saying was not that the mi-conjugation was active
(synchronically in Hittite) and the hi-conjugation stative. What I said was
that the hi-conjugation is definitely not resultative or narrative/preterite,
nor easily explained as having developed from a resultative or narrative, while
it can be easily explained as having developed from a stative.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...