Re: [tied] Stative Verbs, or Perfect Tense

aquila_grande <aquila_grande@...> wrote:

>It may be instructive to look at the development of the perfect
tense in modern germanic languages.

>In scandinavian (Norwegian), the perfect often denotes a present
state or action that begun sometimes in the past.

>However,the interpretation as a real past with implications for the
present, is probably the original one, because this meaning is in
accordance with the meaning of the perfect participle.

>The present interpretetion in Homeric and Vedic is not neccessarely
original.

>The perfect may be a development of the past forms of some derived
verbs belonging to a "hi"-conjugation.



Thank you for that information.  I tend to believe it.  It would be interesting to hear from Peter Gray about what you have just said.

Andrew Jarrette