Re: [tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 46817
Date: 2006-12-29

 
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From: tgpedersen
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:33 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative


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> Well, I have an idea that does not require philosophy.
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> I believe that the verbal idea that follows a durative is
> interpreted as co-occurring; what follows a punctual is sequential.

I don't get it, could you elaborate?

Torsten

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In our days, the relationships between adjacent clauses can be neatly specified by conjunctions, in addition to adverbs and adverbials.

Earliest PIE probably did not have conjunctions. If this is true, it would have been useful to have a method of indicating that Clause B sequentially occurred after Clause A as opposed to Clause B overlapping Clause A.

 

Patrick

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