From: Sean Whalen
Message: 45426
Date: 2006-07-19
> On 2006-07-18 02:17, Sean Whalen wrote:I believe PIE was a complex tonal language with
>
> > Accented e/o remain, other e/o deleted so
> originally
> > thematic verbs look athematic in Hittite.
>
> First, there is no such rule in Hittite (if there
> were, we would also
> have thematic nouns and adjectives looking
> athematic).
> Secondly, ifIf they believe there's only one accent per word
> things were that simple, do you think linguists
> studying Hittite are
> foolish enough not to have considered such an
> obvious possibility?
> TheI'd say wóseyè+ > wosèye+ in Indo-Iranian and >
> real problem is that there are no stem cognates of
> extra-Anatolian
> simple thematic presents (and the subjunctive is
> lacking as a category),
> while _other_ types of thematic presents with exact
> stem cognates widely
> attested in other IE languages do exist, cf.
> causatives like
> wassezzi/wassanzi 'clothe' <
> *wos-éje-ti/*wos-éjo-nti (with the thematic
> vowel unaccented but preserved),
> or the entire+(i)skYè+
> -ske-zzi/-ska-nzi class.
> If there were any truth in what you are saying, weThe -hi verbs in Hittite aren't statives created
> would expect numerous
> Hittite verbs looking like acrostatic root stems but
> otherwise related
> to familiar simple thematics like *bHer-e/o-,
> *h2ag^-e/o-, *weg^H-e/o-,
> *h3reg^-e/o-, etc. There are none.