Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 8:52 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

>
>   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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Patrick:

If you are going to misspell your own name, you will really confuse everone.

 

First, -h(i) is does not mark a tense; it indicates a voice.

 

Secondly, why do you not explain how Jasanoff showed this. I have not read him but I doubt strenuously whether he could do this.

 

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