Re: [tied] *-je/o- [was: IE thematic presents...]

> So if causatives are as ancient as we all expect
> them to be... it would seem they are testimony to
> the ancient character of thematic presents. I think
> we still need a 'durative' theme in *-e- for the
> earlier stages of pre-IE before Syncope.
>
> That means there has to be another reason for the
> pattern we see in Tocharian and Anatolian. Perhaps
> there is an 'intermediate' system we aren't yet
> considering for IE?
>
>
> = gLeN

The reason may simply be a process of regularization of the
durative/iterative expression in Anatolian, where the simple e-
themes was outfaced by other themes existing in pre-IE. Actually the
same kind of process that made nearly all English plurals end in -s.

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