From: tgpedersen
Message: 46807
Date: 2006-12-28
>Why better?
> On 2006-12-28 11:44, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Personally I don't think it's a good idea to place too much
> > semantic load on the distinction athematic/thematic. We find
> > this distinction in both verbs and nouns, we know how thematics
> > with fixed stress (stem or thematic vowel) were made from
> > athematics with mobile stress, it makes sense then like
> > Schmalstieg to derive thematic verbs with fixed stress (stem or
> > thematic vowel) from semi-thematics with mobile stress.
>
> Or, better still, directly from athematic aorists, as subjunctives
> with the extension *-e- (or *-h1e-?) and vr.ddhi in the root (which
> all subjunctives have, and which makes them barytone, since the full
> root vowel attracts the accent).
>