... Doesn't this also relate to the fact that present stem formations are normally marked, whereas aorists aren't? I mean the present forms are formed from a...
... Remember there is more than one form of English. Verbs which have no progressive in one "standard" do have in others - such as Indian English. So the...
... That may be due to interference. As a student in Tamil Nadu in the 70's I don't recall progressive used with stative verbs; doesn't really occur in Tamil....
... This claim has always bothered me, as is the related claim that the aorist shows more irregularities than the present. This is patently false for Sanskrit...
... Swedish ... that ... Can't "gjorde" be a broken form rather influencing "györa", a parallel to "gjord", girth and "gördel", girdle. Cf Hellquist p.188. ...
... Colonial linguistics "However, assumptions about the status of linguistics as a science elide enduring, widespread links between the work of linguistic ...
... As for PIE, Meier-Brügger's statistics, based on the LIV data, should perhaps be taken with a small grain of salt, but nevertheless he finds the following...
... But there is a problem in estimating the % of root presents: Except for Anatolian and Indo-Iranian, there are only a handful of root presents found...
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Suppose one adopts the crazy idea that /o/ after all *is* phonetically conditioned. Then acrostatic nouns with e/o root alternation are a problem Which can be...
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Could there be any connection between Alb. <tru> and Alb. <torua> 'scar, impression' like in <humb toruan> 'become confused, lose one's head'. Regards Alvin...
... ************ For torrë and torrua Meyer thinks: "torrë f. 'Umkreis, Umlauf'; Adv. 'rings herum' griech. Bei Mitk. torrë, torrua 'Strasse'. Aus it. ...
Unfortunately, the "chicks" have disappeared... Darn. But here is another juicy item from Moscow News: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/08/pyramids.shtml If...
... http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/01/04/harevishnu.shtml ... http://www.simbir-archeo.narod.ru/ArcheoImenc/stMayna6.htm ****GK: I prefer the "Chicks in...
... So, now that I have convinced myself that PIE *dheh1- and *doh3- are really the same verb and that it occurs in both the Germanic weak preterite and the...
... Oh, and BTW: since *de-do:- "did, gave" etc is structurally similar to preverb + verb, a phony preverb/adverb/pre-/postposition *de "from, away" was...
... There is a consequence to what you're saying: Since Latin Greek and Sanskrit consistently distinguish these roots, I suppose you are arguing: (a) The root...
... I acknowledge that, but I don't think it has any bearing on what I am proposing, which is: In the general case, that the ablauting root vowel in eg. verbs...
... Latin split took place at the same time as the ones in Greek and Sanskrit since the Latin stems are so formally different from those in those two...
... Checking up on all this, I discovered something surprising about 'in': it's not a pre-/post-/adverb/-position at all, but the locative of a deictic...
... So do Baltic and Slavic languages, with 'give' and all its derivatives showing OCS a, Lith. uo < *oh3, and 'put, place' and its derivatives showing OCS e^,...
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