Re: [tied] "-L" past participle

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:54:40 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
wrote:

>> Is the "-L" past participle suffix in Slavonic languages only
>> or has this grammatical morpheme cognates in any other branch?
>
>According to my notes it is also found in Armenian, but I'm suspicious. G W
>Campbell's "Bluebird Book of Languages for Children to collect on Holiday"
>(or whatever the title is) suggests that the -l- is an infinitive, and so
>participial forms such as those in -elis/-alis, and the so-called "future
>gerund" in -lu could simply be based on the infinitive.

The Armenian past participle (built on the aorist stem) ends in -eal
(o-stem, G. -eloy), while the infinitive in -l (also o-stem) is built
on the present stem. The formation of teh past ptc. is unclear:
perhaps the suffix was originally -al [*-eh2-lo ?], which after aorist
stems ending in -i gave -i-al > -eal, later analogically extended.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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