Re: [tied] Stative Verbs, or Perfect Tense

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 2sg. *-te and 3sg. *-e are not attested, although the 2sg.
> form is required by the reconstruction, which would be :

I'm afraid you are right, there is no attested Hitt. 2sg prs. *-te.
That was a mistake. I can't see it matters though.

> 1. *-h2a-i > -he(:) > -hi
> 2. *-th2a-i > *-te(:) > -ti
> 3. *-e-i > -i
>
> These are the perfect endings, enlarged by *-i.
>
> The past of the hi-conjugation can be reconstructed as:
>
> 1. *-h2a (Hittite *-h2-m. > -hun analogical)
> 2. *-th2a
> 3. *-s,
>
> which does not correspond with the perfect endings.

Hey, come on, the 1sg and 2sg do correspond with the perfect.
Hittite 3sg prs. -i and 3sg prt. -s do not correspond with each
other, so why would that be so securely normative?

Jens