Re: [tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative

On 2006-12-28 11:44, tgpedersen wrote:

> Personally I don't think it's a good idea to place too much semantic
> load on the distinction athematic/thematic. We find this distinction
> in both verbs and nouns, we know how thematics with fixed stress (stem
> or thematic vowel) were made from athematics with mobile stress, it
> makes sense then like Schmalstieg to derive thematic verbs with fixed
> stress (stem or thematic vowel) from semi-thematics with mobile stress.

Or, better still, directly from athematic aorists, as subjunctives with
the extension *-e- (or *-h1e-?) and vr.ddhi in the root (which all
subjunctives have, and which makes them barytone, since the full root
vowel attracts the accent).

Piotr