On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:49:48 +0000, tgpedersen
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tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>Checking out the article, I discovered I need better glasses. Replace
>all U's with I's in my posting (odd, I thought Slavic 3rd sg. had -U?).
In OCS and what underlies modern Russian pronunciation. Old
Russian and e.g. modern Ukrainian have expected -(e)tI.
In general, we find forms with -0, with -tU and with -tI in
Slavic (also in the 3pl.). -tI is the expected reflex of
PIE *-ti. Zero is the expected reflex of PIE *-t, the
secondary (past/injunctive or subjunctive) ending, and I
believe that -tU is also a regular outcome of PIE *-t.
Compare similar alternations in the personal pronoun (j)a ~
(j)azU, and in prepositions such as o ~ ob ~ obU. In Old
Novgorodian, the forms with -0 are generally used in a modal
sense, while the forms with -tI are used in
declarative/indicative context (Zaliznjak, p. 119-120), so
that fits in nicely.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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