From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 38448
Date: 2005-06-08
>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:I didn't know that. Do you happen to have the reference?
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>> 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.):
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>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
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>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)
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>Piotr
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