Re: Origin of reduplication, new idea.

> But how about the preterite of the verb *dhe:-/do:- itself?
> It must have been *de-do:- lit. "do-did", ie. "did do", or the like.
> Remembering how important this verb is, this could have set a pattern
> for how to form a preterite, namely *C1eC2- -> *C1eC1oC2-. Viola!
> Reduplication has been invented!

Oh, and BTW: since *de-do:- "did, gave" etc is structurally similar to
preverb + verb, a phony preverb/adverb/pre-/postposition *de "from,
away" was abstracted from it.


Torsten