Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

From: tgpedersen
Message: 38616
Date: 2005-06-14

> 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.
>

Basically he goes a throught a number of existing Hittite hi-paradigm
verbs plus their other-IE cognates and shows that the hi-paradigms
might as well have been the orinal for that verb in PIE. It involves a
lot of details for each verb. I suggest you read him yourself.

Torsten