Re: IE lexical accent

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> I gave an example:
> >> 2a. **/bara kewanata/
>
> Miguel mocks:
> > Worse, so must the dog be: disjointed and dismembered ("je porte

du

> > chien"?).
>
> Now you're getting into the partitive case and its usages in

different

> languages but this really has little relevance to the idea that the
> perfect is underlyingly a transitivized intransitive, hence the *-

e at

> the end of 1ps *-xe, 2ps *-txe and 3ps *-e, to declare the object

without

> a break in the semantic flow of the phrase.
>

Just an amateur's comment:

In Finnish where the partitive case is very common it tends to also
operate on the verb.

Kanoin koiran taloon.
I carried (action finished) the dog (accusative)into the house.

Kanoin koiraa taloon.
I was carrying (imperfect action) a dog (partitive) into the house.

Peter P