Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 39713
Date: 2005-08-23

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> The "merely dialectal" was more a reflection on the attested
> distribution of the hyperthematic subjunctive, rather than
> on its composite/secondary character.

Well, then, does something attested in Indo-Iranian, Greek and Italic
qualify as einzelsprachlich? If _some_ classes of thematic presents were
not original subjunctives, there should have been a way in which they
could form their own subjunctives if need arose. I don't want to
speculate about the exact age of my *-o: < **-o-om. It could be PIE or
posterior to the separation of Anatolian.

Piotr