Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

From: tgpedersen
Message: 38584
Date: 2005-06-13

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

The hi-conjugation was once in use in both present and aorist,
Jasanoff shows. As to what other derived tenses etc there might have
been, we can't tell. They're gone.


Torten

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