Re: [tied] -hi, -mi

>> 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.

Pardon me, but isn't this precisely what PIE has been saying for years?
That certain verbs, mainly statives, took a set of endings which became
the -hi endings in Hittite, and the perfect (or a basis for the middle) in
other languages?

What is new in what he says?

Peter