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

> 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>).

So it's nearly all -> except a few cases -> no evidence at all?

What I proposed was regularization of semithematics -> thematics. That
option would have been open at any time, so we can't set a terminus
post quem non.


Torsten