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

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:22:58 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> In that case, isn't it peculiar that Russian, Czech and Old
>> Polish converged, completely independently, on a gerund in
>> -a?
>
>Not really. The search went out to collect those that had -a, so the
>resulting collection all have -a. A random search would have contained
>many other forms.

Such as?

As far as I know (which is mainly the modern standard
languages), there are 5 different systems:

1. nesy, znajeN, xvaleN (OCS)

2. extension of -e(N) to all forms (Slv, Srb, Mod.Russ)

3. nesa, znajeN, xvaleN (ORuss, Czech)

4. 3pl + *-tj- (Russ, Ukr, Blr, SCr, Svk, Pol)

5. -ej-k'i, -(j)aj-k'i (Bulg, Mac)


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