In my "reconstruction" of the PIE verb system,
"transitive" means the verb has a definite direct
object and is so marked. "Intransitive" means the
verb does not have a definite direct object. The
direct object marker is reconstructed as the anaphoric
pronoun stem e-, and is suffixed to the verb stem.
Thus:
bher-me "I bear"
bher-te "you bear"
bher-e-m(e) "I bear it"
bher-e-t(e) "you bear it"
The PIE stative is an entirely different paradigm. It
was used for when a given state was achieved.
Although it was re-analyzed as a "perfect" conjugation
in the daughter languages, it originally did not
convey a perfective aspect (Sihler).
- Rob
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