Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
[JER:]

> Except for Anatolian which obviously developed a
> problem
> > with the "simple thematic" structure all IE languages show a
> massive
> > drift of athematic structures into thematic conjugations. So
> massive
> > in fact that the process must have begun before the

disintegration

> > of the protolanguage. Are we now to believe that, after the
> breakup
> > of PIE, inherited thematic forms of the 1sg, 1pl and 3pl were
> > *normalized* away from the ongoing trend which was to thematize
> and
> > were instead *athematized*?
>
>
> Nonono. They existed already. If the semi-thematic is the original
> one, you get the thematic one by inserting _stressed -e-_ in the
> zero forms, getting a suffix-stressed static thematic paradigm.

Move

> stress forward a few syllables: Voilà, thematic paradigm.

I don't understand this. Which ones existed already? Athematic
*H1ésmi, *H1smós, *H1sénti? And was a "stressed -e-" inserted into
the "zero forms"? What would that give if not a 3sg *H1s-é-ti? If
so, what happened to that form which is not something we seem to
find? You really need to be more explicit.

Jens