Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-03-04 00:47, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> ems that you have problems to remember well what I said
> >
> > I said that: ORIGINARY THERE WERE SPECIFIC VERBAL <VERB>-DHEH1
> > FORMATIONS IN PIE
> >
> > And that the number of such PIE formation arrived to be relevant
> > because some daughter languages (Germanic, Baltic, etc...) arrived

to

> > generalized this formations and to use them as an Morphological-
> > Pattern in order to construct new Verbal-Aspects.
>
> Ah, so you do believe that the Germanic weak preterite goes back to a
> PIE formation. I deny that, so we do disagree about something :)
>
> Piotr

Not to a specific one -> you like to quote me with what I never said :)
Is the third time that you try to do this...

=> it is a Germanic innovation that has generalized in a Verbal-Aspects
some existing PIE dHeh1-verbs...
=> there are similar Baltic innovations that has generalized in a
similar way (but of course in some different ones)

But all these show us something in relation with the spreading of the
specific dHeh1-verbs in PIE.

Marius