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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> > In Latin, are the perfects _dedi:_ 'gave' and _steti:_ 'stood'
> > > perfects or aorists in origin?
> >
> > Perfects (funny question).
>
> How do we know they are not reduplicated aorists? I don't know

what

> reduplicated aorists look like in Latin.

These are well-documented IE lexemes known to have formed root-
aorist and reduplicated present and of course a reduplicated
perfect. The reduplicated non-present can only be the perfect. By
pleading ignorance you are in effect dismissing the whole idea of
comparative linguistics.

Jens