Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: alexandru_mg3

0. There was a Common Language named PIE (-> so already from here you
story with 'bats and birds' doesn't fit)
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ok
The next question is
what does standard PIE actually describe ?
Arnaud
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1. There were already in PIE verbal construction in -dH(e)h1- this is
the starting point. -dH(e)h1- was also used for noun and adjectival
constructions too.
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Apart from the **syntagmatic** well-known phrase
kred-dheH1 with **two** main vowels.
What other cases exist ?
Arnaud
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2. There was already in PIE periphrastic verbal constructions that
used some <key> verbs like 'bHuh-' 'dHeh1-' etc...as a distinct
marker
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Unproved.
Arnaud
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3. Reduplication was used already in PIE times for Morphological
Functionalities even quite for teh definition of Verbal Aspects (so
the concept of 'morphological reduplication' was used already in PIE)