Re: [tied] Re: Slavic ptc.praes.act.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:53:01 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> This might explain the enigmatic N.sg. (m/n) of the ptc.
>> praes. act. in Russian and Czech: <nesa>.
>
>Hey, how can that be enigmatic? If the "soft" form -eN yields -ja in
>these languages, the "hard" variant can be changed to -a by simple
>analogy. That's simple isn't it? And why is it wrong?

That's what I thought, until my attention was drawn to the
fact that the -a forms also occur in Czech (and according to
Orr also sporadically in Old Polish).

Needless to add, -eN does not give -ja in Czech (or Polish).

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