Re: [tied] Re: Slavic ptc.praes.act.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:04:32 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>[JER:]
>> >, and the soft counterpart of -a
>> >is -e^/-e (zeme^, dus^e), so I can't really see why myje, mluve^
>> >could not analogically be given a hard counterpart nesa.
>[MCV:]
>> I find it hard to believe. Why would a masc/neuter nom. sg.
>> gerund *nesy (znaje, chvale) be analogically reshaped after
>> the NA plural (c.q. G.sg.) of feminine nouns? It makes no
>> sense.
>
>That's not what I mean. I mean, ja-stems end in -e^/-e in the nom.sg.,
>and a-stems end in -a. So a nom.sg. in -e^/-e of soft-type
>prs.ptc.act. could develop a hard counterpart -a.

You mean post-pr^ehláska? [I don't have a Czech historical
grammar, so I'm not quite sure when that is dated?]

In that case, isn't it peculiar that Russian, Czech and Old
Polish converged, completely independently, on a gerund in
-a?


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