Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

From: willemvermeer
Message: 35814
Date: 2005-01-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<s.tarasovas@...> wrote:

> On the other hand, what about <kìlti>, praet. <kìlo>? Is the rule
as
> simple as "the preterites with -ý- eventually continue s-aorists
> while the ones with -ì- eventually continue something else"? :)

Yes, the something else being the thematic aorist. But, as is often
the case with Kortlandt, the story is merely sketched in rough
outline and the reader has to bring in a lot of background knowledge
and do a lot of homework to see what is really going on, let alone
get into a position where critically informed evaluation becomes
possible. I for one have never gotten that far. (I've never
understood why accentologists tend to communicate so poorly.)

Willem