Re: o-grade thoughts

> This is why the secondary endings occur in those
> moods and tenses that are 'dependent' in nature, while the
> primary ones, formed from the secondary ones by adding
> locative -i, thus making up the well-known "progressive tense
> by verbal noun in the locative" construction, gradually
> out-competed the old hi-conjugation in the main clauses.

Note that the progressive is used to create "statives" out of
semantically punctual verbs (by so to speak temporally
'stretching' the point in time to an interval), which is
why it's not used with semantically stative verbs,
which is why semantically stative verbs might have ended
up as the only ones with the hi-conjugation.


Torsten