Some speculations about the early Indo-European verb

More on the origin of the Indo-European feminine gender : a reply to Ledo-Lemos

“…Burrow 1973: 233), but simply whether it is reasonable to ascribe both to the early history of Greek and perhaps other dialects" (Shields 2004: 18-19). See Shields (2005) for specific arguments in support of a dative-locative marker *-ai within the context of these general observations. 7 In Shields (2002), I propose a verbal origin for the stem-suffix of thematic nominal declension.…”

“…háma 'at the same time, at once,' pará 'near, beside,' and, in contamination with the particle *i, in locative forms like khamaí 'on the ground' (Sihler 1995: 348), paraí 'near, beside' (Beekes 1985: 125); and more generally in the homeric Greek athematic infinitive suffix in -ai (cf. -sai, -sthai), which reflects the contamination of deictics in *a and *i as a dative-locative desinence (Shields 2005). 6 To me, the reconstruction of a deictic in *a/ā has ample support.…”