Re: -s- and verbs

> This means that a suffix that changes a stative or durative
> verb to make it denote something punctual, will by that same
> act make it denote something punctual in the past *or* in the
> future.
>
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> Which means that the -s- of the s-aorist might be identical to
> the Baltic future in -s-, if we define the primary function of
> that suffix as that of making the verb denote something punctual
> (we might have to give up the link to the desiderative, though).
>
> What do you guys think?

Germanic has no trace of the s-aorist. But perhaps a s-extension
marking punctuality or suddenness, eg. Danish plumpe, German plumpsen
"plop" v.


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