Re: [tied] Re: Swat River.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11074
Date: 2001-11-06

Those *-t-suffixes are so multifunctional ... You're actually asking if *-ti- abstracts like *mn-ti- or *mr-ti- are somehow derived from adjectives in *-to-. Hm, but why Slavic *merti, *derti, *westi, etc. from *mer-, *der-, *weg^H-, ...?
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:53 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Swat River.

Sorry for a probably dilettantic question: does that mean Balto-Slavic infinitives (lexicalized D. sg. of deverbal nouns in -t-i-) have been formed from deverbal adjectives in -to- (substituting -o-theme with -i-theme) or at least along the similar lines, with stress retraction to the suffix -ti-, whence null-grade (resembling that of perfects in plural): *leikW- 'leave' > *likWti'- 'left' > *li`kte:i 'to leave'?