Re: Perfect vs. hi-conjugation: the truth at last

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> The thing that really needs explaining is the pret 3sg, which
> also is a pivot for Jasanoff. In my view, every (durative)
> verbal root has a parallel punctual stem in -s-, back-formed by
> falsely interpreting a 2sg subjunctive in -si as an imperative
> in -i, whereby it gets the punctual semantics of the imperative.
> Here this punctual stem, with past semantics (in Baltic it is
> used with future semantics) replaces the endingless (and
> therefore potentially confusing) root in 3sg pret. hi-conjugation.

The -s that appears after the -r of 3pl in Iranian (c^iko:it&r&s^)
and also in Skt -úr < *-r.´s^ must have the same origin and the same
purpose, to indicate past.


Torsten