Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> Yes, the derived tenses of the perfectum look, with one
> exception, exactly like inflected forms of the verb "to be"
> added, in the "weak" verbs, to the *w-participle
> (ptc.pf.act.):
That's what Rix advocates for the -v-perfect and whatever derives from
it: an originally periphrastic tense with the *-wot/s- participle
(converted into an -o-stem?) followed by (weak) inflected forms of 'to
be'. Structurally (though with a different participle and a different
auxiliary), it would be quite similar to the weak preterite in Germanic,
if from the haplological reduction of
3sg. *lubo:da(n) dede: > *lubo:de: (OE lufode, Goth. -o:da)
3pl. *lubo:da(n) de:dun(d) > *lubo:de:dun (OE lufodon, Goth. -o:de:dun)
Piotr