Re: [tied] Re: Slavic infinitive ending kinship

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:45:12 +0000, Rob
<magwich78@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> What is the PIE reconstruction of the Slavic infinitive ending /-
>ti/ (Czech -t, -ti, -ci < gti/kti), its origin and kinship? Are there
>non-Slavic IE languages that use this (or related) ending to form
>infinitives? Thank you for your comments and advice.
>>
>> Petusek
>
>Hello, Petusek.
>
>From what I've read, the Slavic infinitive ending is a combination of
>the IE nomina actionis (i.e., abstract noun) ending *-ti plus
>locative *-i, yielding the form *-ti:.

The origin is indeed action noun *-tis in a case form. In
theory, it could be the locative *-te:i or the dative
*-teiei. Both give -i in Slavic, and both have been
replaced in normal i-stems in Lithuanian. The fact that
*-tí is normally end-stressed rather points to the locative.

Sanskrit uses the dative, accusative or locative of various
verbal nouns in infinitive function. From verbal nouns in
*-ti-, we have for instance (dative) pi:taye: (*pih3teiei)
"to drink" (Balto-Slavic *pih3te:i or *pih3teiei =>
*pi:ti:).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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