Potential Aorist-Perfect Confusion (was: Late P-Alb. = E. P-Rom. *3

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >> Almost everything in the Romanian conjugations points to Latin

and

> >>Latin alone.
> >> What other language mixes s-aorists with true perfects?
>
> >Epic Greek comes pretty close, with its reduplicated aorists.
>
> Nonsense.
> Reduplication in aorists is also found in Sanskrit and early

Latin. In

> Greek they are still aorists, not to be confused with perfects.

In Latin on

> the other hand, the s-aorists and perfects are blended

promiscuously into

> one tense.

In Epic Greek, how do you tell a contracted perfect from a
contracted reduplicated aorist?

In Latin, are the perfects _dedi:_ 'gave' and _steti:_ 'stood'
perfects or aorists in origin?

Richard.