Re: [tied] Re: Lithuanian nom.pl. participles

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:00:28 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> Are there any serious objections to deriving the nominative
>> plural forms, which totally lack any kind of plural marking
>> compatible with a nominal paradigm, from the PIE 3rd. person
>> plural finite form?
>
>There are those that do the opposite, derive the third plural from the
>present participle. What's your position on that?

That's an entirely different question.

The PIE third person plural has nothing to do with the
present participle. It patterns quite easily with the other
verbal endings and requires no separate explanation:

1 **-mW (*-i)
2 **-tW (*-i)
3 **-0 + *-t (*-i)

1 **-mW-én (*-i)
2 **-tW-én (*-i)
3 **-0 -én + *-t (*-i)


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