Proto-Indo-European Verbs
Start Date
April 2024
Location
MCD 130
Abstract
The present research aims to provide a reconstruction of the endings of the indicative mood of the Proto-Indo-European verb which explains, the same or better than the traditional reconstructions, the reflexes in the daughter languages. Additionally, the endings reconstructed here are based upon a more agglutinative idea of PIE than generally assumed. The endings to be reconstructed are the personal endings of the primary, secondary, and perfect tenses, in all persons, numbers, and voices. Thematic verbs are found to differ only in certain forms from their athematic counterparts, and several before-undiscovered morphemes have been found, including markers of non-singular number and new middle-voice markers. The perfect is found to be unrelated to the middle. The work here is based upon Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and it is necessary to carry out a similar analysis with languages representing the Slavic, Iranic, Celtic, Germanic branches, etc.
Proto-Indo-European Verbs
MCD 130
The present research aims to provide a reconstruction of the endings of the indicative mood of the Proto-Indo-European verb which explains, the same or better than the traditional reconstructions, the reflexes in the daughter languages. Additionally, the endings reconstructed here are based upon a more agglutinative idea of PIE than generally assumed. The endings to be reconstructed are the personal endings of the primary, secondary, and perfect tenses, in all persons, numbers, and voices. Thematic verbs are found to differ only in certain forms from their athematic counterparts, and several before-undiscovered morphemes have been found, including markers of non-singular number and new middle-voice markers. The perfect is found to be unrelated to the middle. The work here is based upon Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and it is necessary to carry out a similar analysis with languages representing the Slavic, Iranic, Celtic, Germanic branches, etc.
