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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> Hittite has done as much restructuring as the other branches. Having
.........abandoned aspect distinctions.
Is this really so? Hittite had a lot of derivational endings that
could be placed between the root and the primary/secondary endings.
Many of these carried aspectual meaning, and some of them seemed to be
identical with some aspectual endings in the other branches.
Why could not such a freely usable set of aspectual endings be
regarded as the original one, and the more rigid aspectual system of
the rest of the branches as a later development.