s-aorist

The function of the apostrophe was originally to indicate

> the deletion of the vowel of the ending, and the employment of the
> spelling <-'s> in a grammatical function is a typical example of
> linguistic "exaptation":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation
>

That's a nice was to explain how eg. Jasanoff sees the development of
the originally 3rd sg. -s to tense marker in the s-aorist.


Torsten