Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

> Germanic has lost the reduplication in perfects of verbs
> with *e-vocalism (i.e. the vast majority).

But added the weak-preterit and some other reduplication patterns
(see Gothic)

> >III.
> > The evolution was due to the semantism of dHeh1-compounds in

PIE

> >=> like 'mindset', 'heartset', 'ownset' -> self-possesion
> >
> > The main meaning of an <X-dHeh1> compound was not only : 'to
> >locate, to place X' but in addition 'to continue to preserve/to
> >ensure the preservation/to keep X where it was initially
> >placed/located" (<X-dHeh1> was an 'emphatic' compound)
> >
> > => this semantism was generalized by Germanic to a special

verbal

> >aspect where the action (that initially generated already a state

so

> >is not an imperfect in relation with this) continue in order to
> >preserve/to ensure/to keep unchanged/or-even-to-intensify the

result

> >of that action or the action in itself
> >
> >So I think that the semantic evolution is quite clear.


> I'm sorry, but not to me. Your semantism sounds more like a
> future than like a preterite to me.

'A future' once the action is done [...and next re-done again...]

Marius

P.S. : I will come back later on the main topics.