Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

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> From: Patrick Ryan
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> > Can you distinguish lexical and grammatical features ?
> > Arnaud
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> I would like to see you try to maintain that point with a Slavic speaker.
>
> PR
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> Slavic has grammatical tenses : present + past
> and a lexicalized aspect which I believe
> has more to do the definiteness of the process
> than with the time of the process.
>
> Arnaud
> ====================

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Arnaud, you are feeding me back what I already wrote:

perfective indicates a definite goal or change of state for the action.

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> No one is in his right mind would bother refuting Saussure.
> PR
> ========
> What do you mean ?
> Arnaud
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I mean, of course, that his theories were pioneering work that has been
superseded by later linguists.


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> *o, of course, _does_ alternate in roots with *e, depending primarily on
> the
> placement of the stress-accent.
>
> Patrick
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>
> For example ?
>
> I don't think e / o alternations are conditioned by stress.
>
> Arnaud
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If you think that *e/*o are analogous phenomena to Semitic vowel patterning,
and, that *o is nominal whereas *e is verbal (I think you wrote this), then
you need to think again.

*o appears in many verbal as well as nominal inflections but, by no means,
are all or even the majority of nominals endowed with *o.


Patrick

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