[tied] Re: Slavic *-je/o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-09-04 09:00, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Nono. Here's the original process: ChSl. mogU moz^e moz^e mogomU
> > moz^ete mogõ
>
> What has this got to do with the *-je/o- suffix in present stems
> or with semithematic conjugations?

I was imagining something like i-extended present stem (à la
Jasonoff) -> recategorisation (à la id.) as semithematic mi-
conjugation -> recategorisation as thematic stem by inserting
*e's before unvoiced.

> The above forms are those of
> the asigmatic aorist, which in this particular case is fully
> thematic.

It was the 1pl. I wanted to point to.

> What I meant was that in the present tense the thematic
> vowel became *e also in some forms with original *o, like 1pl.
> *-emU (perhaps metathetically *-e-mos < *o-mes), cf. also
> *nosimU (not **nos^omU) in the i-conjugation.

Became, yes.

> >> There are accentual differences between *-ih- (or anything that
> >> behaves like inherited *-ih-, like the vowel of the infinitive)
> >> and vowels resulting from such contractions.
>

Torsten