Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

The Germanic innovation was to treat a past participle as if it were a
finite form.

Patrick

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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> I am not going to intrude into this discussion except to say that I
believe
> Piotr is completely right to link -*to participles with Germanic
dental
> preterites.
>
> Subsequently, the participial phrase was interpreted as finite; and
personal
> endings added.
>
> Patrick
>

-to was a sufix already in PIE times
-dHeh1 was a still a verb in PIE times

marius