> In Epic Greek, how do you tell a contracted perfect from a
> contracted reduplicated aorist?
I'm not certain why you refer to "contracted" perfects and aorists. If you
mean the contract stems, they show different endings, since they are by
definition vowel stems within Greek.
Reduplicated aorists and reduplicated perfects show different forms of the
root:
pepithon vs pepoitha / pepeika "persuade"
pephradon vs pephraka "tell"
kekamw (subj) vs kekme:ka "labour"
etc.
> In Latin, are the perfects _dedi:_ 'gave' and _steti:_ 'stood'
> perfects or aorists in origin?
Since we know these forms from so many other IE languages, why do you ask?
Are you suggesting a reduplicated aorist would have the same form? As far
as I know these two words do not normally show reduplicated aorists
(although grammarians do mention a reduplicated aorist of da: in Sanskrit,
and a reduplicated aorist of the causative of sta: is found, but this is
clearly late).
Peter