TY  - RPRT
A1  - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
T1  - Hittite hi-verbs and the Indo-European perfect
N2  - In an earlier study (1983) I argued that unlike aorists and athematic presents, Indo-European perfects and thematic presents originally had a dative subject, as in German mir träumt ‘me dreams’ for ich träume ‘I dream’, e.g. Greek oida ‘I know’ < ‘it is known to me’, édomai ‘I will eat’ < ‘it is eatable to me’. On the basis of Oettinger’s epoch-making book (1979), I proposed that the Hittite hi-flexion originated from a merger of the perfect, where *-i was added to 3rd sg. *-e in order to supply a new present, with the thematic flexion of causatives and iteratives, where the final *-e of 3rd sg. *-eie was dropped before the loss of intervocalic *-i- (1983: 315).
KW  - Hethitisch
KW  - Indogermanische Sprachen
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14814
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157380
UR  - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art241e.pdf
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
ER  -