TY - JOUR A1 - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H. T1 - The Proto-Germanic pluperfect T2 - Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik N2 - The Germanic perfect presents (Präteritopräsentien) form a past tense by adding the endings of the weak preterit to the stem of the past participle, e.g. Go. wissa ‘knew’. This is a recent formation (cf. Kortlandt 1989). We may therefore ask ourselves if we can reconstruct the earlier formation which was ousted by the weak preterit. We may also try to recover the motivation for the replacement. KW - Indogermanische Sprachen KW - Plusquamperfekt Y1 - 2010 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14732 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156540 UR - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art128e.pdf N1 - Korrigierte Version VL - 40 SP - 1 EP - 5 ER -