Re: [tied] Re: Slavic infinitive ending kinship

>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> What is

the PIE reconstruction of the Slavic infinitive ending /-

>>ti/ (Czech

-t, -ti, -ci < gti/kti), its origin and kinship? Are there

>>non-Slavic IE languages that use this (or related) ending to form
>>infinitives? Thank you for your comments and advice.
>>>
>>> Petusek
>>
>>Hello,

Petusek.

>>
>>From what I've read, the Slavic infinitive

ending is a combination of

>>the IE nomina actionis (i.e., abstract

noun) ending *-ti plus

>>locative *-i, yielding the form *-ti:. 
>
>The origin is indeed action noun *-tis in a case form. 

In

>theory, it could be the locative *-te:i or the

dative

>*-teiei.  Both give -i in Slavic, and both have

been

>replaced in normal i-stems in Lithuanian.  The fact

that

>*-tí is normally end-stressed rather points to the

locative.

>
>Sanskrit uses the dative, accusative or locative of

various

>verbal nouns in infinitive function.  From verbal nouns

in

>*-ti-, we have for instance (dative) pi:taye: (*pih3teiei)
>"to

drink" (Balto-Slavic *pih3te:i or *pih3teiei =>

>*pi:ti:).
>
>=======================
>Miguel

Carrasquer Vidal

>mcv@...