Re: [tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative, correction, full quote

On 2006-12-29 12:59, tgpedersen wrote:

> In addition to the regular type there are a number of a-aorists in
> Sanskrit whose form agrees rather with imperfects of the first class
> rather than of the sixth class since they have gun.a of root :
> e.g.ás´akam, ásanam, ásaram, ákaras, ágamat, atanat, ásadat. This is
> the normal form of the a-aorist for roots consisting of two consonants
> and the thematic vowel. Furthermore where accent occurs these forms
> are accented like stems of the first present class. Examples of this
> are káras, sánat, sárat, dárs´am ( = the Gk. present stem
> dérkomai), gáman, sádatam, sádatam, and the participles sádant-,
> sánant (these have also contaminated the regular type above to some
> extent, so that forms accented like rúhat occur occasionally).
> A number of the stems listed here are probably thematisations of root
> aorists, and not ancient. For instance the a-aorist ágamat appears
> later in the history of the language than the root aorist agan. On the
> other hand some are clearly old (e.g. ásadat), and since the type
> appears also in Greek (egénrto, génesthai) it must be referred to
> Indo-European.
> "

The IE thematic aorist was the subject of George Cardona's doctoral
dissertation (1960), in which he demonstrates that despite the parallel
appearance of the type in Sanskrit and Greek nearly all thematic aorists
represent secondary thematicisations in the individual histories of the
daughter languages. There might be just a few cases like *h1ludH-é-t and
*wid-é-t as well as reduplicated *we-ukW-e-t where thematicisation
possibly took place already in the protolanguage, but even these have
been questioned. There is no evidence at all for a PIE aorist type like
*séd-e-t (despite the RV age of <ásadat>).

Piotr