Re: Perfect passive participle

At 1:00:07 AM on Monday, August 1, 2011, stlatos wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> At 9:36:17 PM on Sunday, July 31, 2011, stlatos wrote:

>> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "cafaristeir"
>> > <cafaristeir@> wrote:

>> >> I know that the IE active participle of present and
>> >> aorist is in -nt, while the perfect has -wos/-us.
>> >> Likewise, the passive participle of present and aorist is
>> >> in -mH1no-

>> > There's no ev. for -H1- or any other H here.

>> To quote Ringe:

> It is now clear that the PIE mediopassive participle
> suffix was *-mh1nó-, since that is the only shape that can
> account both for Gk -μενο- (/-meno-/) and Tocharian B
> -mane, A -māṃ (Klingenschmitt 1975: 161-3).

>> Whether or not everyone agrees that it's persuasive, there
>> clearly *is* evidence.

> This is yet another argument over semantics. I do not call
> data ev. just because it could be interpreted in one way;
> only when it does so well (has no better alternative,
> can't be accounted for by analogy or contamination, etc.).

You haven't actually addressed the assertion that *-mh1nó-
is 'the only shape ...' and whatever arguments suppor it;
you've merely asserted a contrary opinion. And after what
I've seen of your opinions, methodology, and judgement over
the years, I've little reason to take any of them seriously.

Brian