tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post2840891485438775695..comments2023-09-24T05:45:23.811-05:00Comments on Paleoglot: Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preteriteGlen Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-76032262561569135022009-08-14T08:35:47.579-05:002009-08-14T08:35:47.579-05:00Aha! I finally found a second pertinent quote onli...Aha! I finally found a second pertinent quote online on the topic: <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=-H4CLMHMRsEC&pg=PA152&dq=%22For+the+moment,+the+essential+point+to+note+is+that+any+account+which+derives+the+%22" rel="nofollow">Polome/Winter, <i>Trends in linguistics 58 - Reconstructing languages and cultures</i> (1992), p.143</a>. Here again, specialists speak only of a Glen Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-10191156868694586962009-08-14T08:06:39.587-05:002009-08-14T08:06:39.587-05:00PhoeniX: "While the 3sg hi-ending appears to ...<b>PhoeniX: <i>"While the 3sg hi-ending appears to come from the 'aorist', I am puzzled why you say this form has a *ē in the root."</i></b><br /><br />How is <b>**dh₁oi-s-t</b> proven for PIE? If we agree that there were no PIE "o-grade sigmatic aorists", we're left solely with a Narten-ablaut sigmatic aorist that was secondarily given o-grade when a post-IE Glen Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-75398810037997352882009-08-14T06:29:54.409-05:002009-08-14T06:29:54.409-05:00While the 3sg hi-ending appears to come from the &...While the 3sg hi-ending appears to come from the 'aorist', I am puzzled why you say this form has a *ē in the root.<br /><br /><i>dais</i> simply comes from *dh1-oi-s-t. So the 3sg hi- preterite ending has an expected *o-grade.<br /><br />The reason why ending *-e was replaced here, was probably because word final *-e is lost in Hittite. Like in <i>nekku</i> 'and not' /neKʷ/< *PhoeniXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627425696035152752noreply@blogger.com