Re: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their themati

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:12:13 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> So we would expect *prasac', *praszeN, *prasze, instead of
>> praszac', praszam, prasza. Is this a Polish innovation?
>
>We would in fact expect *praszajeN, etc. (-je- presents), and this is in
>fact what we still find in the oldest Polish texts (cf. Russ. -aju). -am
>instead of -ajeN is indeed a Polish innovation.

Yes. I was confused by the -j- before the suffix -a-, but I
suppose that's just the -i- of the i-stem base verb.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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