Hittite hi-verbs and the Indo-European perfect
- 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).
Author: | Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157380 |
URL: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art241e.pdf |
Document Type: | Report |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/12 |
Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/07/12 |
GND Keyword: | Hethitisch; Indogermanische Sprachen |
Page Number: | 11 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 11 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 228716101 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
Licence (German): | ![]() |