Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 38579
Date: 2005-06-13

 
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From: tgpedersen
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

>   Patrick:
>
>   I honestly cannot really see what your point is here.
>
>   Are you disputing that PIE had two conjugations? one active, one
inactive?
>

I think pre-PIE might only have had one, the one now known as stative.


Torsten

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Patrick:
 
So "stative" served for durative and punctual? No language known to me is incapable of making this distinction by one device or another.
 
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