Re: [tied] Hello/Intro and a Question on Particle *h1é

On Jun 9, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> *(h1e-)bheret is not a "perfect".  It's either an imperfect
> or an aorist (depending on the specific verbal root).

Duh, it's right there in the book. :-[ Thank you.

> Although the Anatolian facts do not suggest anything like
> it, it stands to reason that *nu- was originally used to
> introduce present tense sentences, and *h1e- sentences in
> the past tense.  From there, it's but a small step to the
> augment as attested in Greek, Vedic and elsewhere.

So *h1e would have been sentence-initial in PIE, and then moved to
pre-verbal position in the descendant languages that kept the augment?

Doug