[tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian *3 /

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> Almost everything in the Romanian conjugations points to Latin and

Latin

> alone.

> What other IE language has an e:-subjunctive for a:-stems, and an
> a:-subjunctive for all other stems?

It is strikingly reminiscent of that alternation -e- for thematic (-
a-) stems versus -ya:- for athematic (non -a- :) stems in the
Sanskrit optative active.

> What other language has a present ptc. (gerund) in -nd-?

If the present participle had survived in Albanian, wouldn't it
show -nd-? As it is, I can only think of the Germanic languages.

> What other language has verbal forms (pqpf.conj.) in
> -assem, etc.

-ss- has degeminated in Romanian, so it looks a rather like a
thematic sigmatic aorist. Sanskrit again.

> What other language mixes s-aorists with true perfects?

Epic Greek comes pretty close, with its reduplicated aorists. And
in Greek the endings of the aorist differ from the perfect only
because its plural has secondary endings rather than primary
endings. (In New Greek, the old perfect endings have now spread to
the imperfect.)

How can you tell that the Romanian simple perfect derives from the
PIE perfect?

Richard.