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).