Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54362
Date: 2008-03-01

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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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3. s'rad-dadha:ti is still a verbal construction in Sanskrit => so
is good as Jassanof showed to indicate the existence of such
periphrastic verbal formation in dHeh1-

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There is nothing 'periphrastic' about s'rad-dadha:ti. It is a simple case of
a Noun + reduplicated Verb combining into a phrase.

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In relation with the Germanic weak preterite: Is a very good
example of a periphrastic verbal formation using re-duplication.
But even supposing it as already a verb, being a <Noun>+dHeh1-
construction is not relevant for our topic where we need <Verb>+dHeh1-
constructions (if any)

Marius

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I am sorry to say that you obviously do not even know what periphrasis is.


Patrick