Re: [tied] Re: passive, ingressive origins

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From: elmeras2000

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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:02 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: passive, ingressive origins

 

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There is. The segment *-yé/ó- marks the durative aspect ("present")
to a stem consisting of root + the stative suffix //-eH1-//. Without
the durative marker this forms an aorist, continued in the Greek
intransitive/passive aorist in -e:-n, -e:-s, -e: etc. When the
present-marking suffix takes the accent the stative marker is
reduced to zero-grade /-H1-/: IE prs. *bhudh-H1-yé-tor 'is waking
up', aor. *bhudh-éH1-t 'woke up'.

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Patrick:

 

Jens, if someone were to propose that the stative suffix had the form -*H1 rather than -*eH1, and that the -*e here was simply due to a thematic version of the verb, what would be your arguments against this idea?

 

 

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