IE thematic wovels

From: Knut
Message: 412
Date: 2001-11-22

Hi

Does enyone on this board have a view about the origin of IE thematic
wovels?

With that I mean the ending of the stem in the thematic declination
o/e declension of nouns, and the wovel between root and ending in
forms of many verbs (present/imperfect tense, some aorists).

Is there some connection back into the steppe-three or is this an IE
innovation.

In the texts I have read, the general view is that this is a late
innovation. But I have never seen any good explanation for this view.

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