Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

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

>
> > 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 through 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.

Can you point to the story of a verb that is such that the hi-
conjugation needs to be accepted as PIE, and the classical verbal
system known from Greek and Vedic will not do? I have not found such
a story, not even with Jasanoff's help.

Jens