[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>).

BTW if the motivation for deriving thematics from athematics was to
replace mobile-stress paradigms with fixed-stress ones, eg. by new
learners (mobile stress isn't making Russian any easier to learn!),
that need would have been eliminated in the aorist by the presence of
the always-stressed augment.


Torsten