Re: [tied] Re: *-t-, put

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 49378
Date: 2007-07-09

On 2007-07-09 22:51, tgpedersen wrote:

> Ahem.
> Apart from this central place, what other traces has the PIE impf.
> left in Germanic?

None, I think. It disappeared as a category when the old aspectual
system collapsed. The new Germanic preterite was based either on the
perfect stem (strong verbs) or a periphrastic construction (weak verbs).

Piotr