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

From: elmeras2000
Message: 39686
Date: 2005-08-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

[JER:]
> >, and the soft counterpart of -a
> >is -e^/-e (zeme^, dus^e), so I can't really see why myje, mluve^
> >could not analogically be given a hard counterpart nesa.
[MCV:]
> I find it hard to believe. Why would a masc/neuter nom. sg.
> gerund *nesy (znaje, chvale) be analogically reshaped after
> the NA plural (c.q. G.sg.) of feminine nouns? It makes no
> sense.

That's not what I mean. I mean, ja-stems end in -e^/-e in the nom.sg.,
and a-stems end in -a. So a nom.sg. in -e^/-e of soft-type
prs.ptc.act. could develop a hard counterpart -a.

Jens