Re: [tied] Re: Mi- and hi-conjugation in Germanic

> If the endings called stative endings (hi.comj, perf-end.) in this
> thread really was marking some stative aspect or property, the hi-
> conjugation in Anatolian should statistically contain more verbs
> denoting a state than the mi-conjugation.

No, not necessarily. Sometimes we see only vestiges and fossilised forms of
something that we think was widespread in PIE. So suggesting that the
perfect/-hi forms were originally stative does mean they have to be stative
at all times in all daughter languages! It is clear in Latin, Greek and
Sanskrit how the perfect forms developed new oppositions and meanings within
the verbal system, and spread to new roots. Why should Hittite be any
different?

Peter