Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 54595
Date: 2008-03-03

On 2008-03-04 00:47, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
ems that you have problems to remember well what I said
>
> I said that: ORIGINARY THERE WERE SPECIFIC VERBAL <VERB>-DHEH1
> FORMATIONS IN PIE
>
> And that the number of such PIE formation arrived to be relevant
> because some daughter languages (Germanic, Baltic, etc...) arrived to
> generalized this formations and to use them as an Morphological-
> Pattern in order to construct new Verbal-Aspects.

Ah, so you do believe that the Germanic weak preterite goes back to a
PIE formation. I deny that, so we do disagree about something :)

Piotr