The Baltic &lt;em&gt;ē-&lt;/em&gt;preterit revisited

Svensson, Miguel Villanueva

doi:10.15388/baltistica.0.6.775

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“…The arguments in favour of this view are in my view simply overwhelming. I refer to Villanueva Svensson (2005; 2014a: 241f. ; 2014c: 169f., all of them with references) for a full treatment.…”

Section: The Baltic Preteritmentioning

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“…3030 Schmid (1966, 1967) remains the best discussion of the distribution of the *‐ ā ‐ and *‐ ē ‐preterits in Lithuanian and Latvian. The sketch that follows is based on Villanueva Svensson (2005), to which the reader is referred for the prehistoric distribution of both preterits. No effort is made here to report the vast literature on the Baltic preterit; see e.g.…”

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“…3232 See Villanueva Svensson (2005: 243f.) for arguments suggesting that the ē ‐preterit is secondary in the type vèsti , vẽda , vẽd≐ as well. …”

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The Balto‐Slavicā‐aorist

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2020

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The paper presents a new theory of the origin of the Balto-Slavic a-aorist. It is argued that the conjunct evidence of Baltic and Slavic allows us to reconstruct a clear picture of the position of the a-aorist in the Balto-Slavic verb system: the Balto-Slavic aorist suffix *-awas non-acute (thus pointing to an original form *-ah 2-e/o-> Bl.-Sl. *-a-), triggered zero grade of the root, and was exclusively found beside primary thematic and i̯ e/o-presents. As indicated by a new analysis of the Slavic data, the a-aorist was exclusively used to make aorists from PIE present roots. In spite of frequent claims to the contrary, the Balto-Slavic a-aorist has no obvious cognates elsewhere in the family and is thus likely to be an innovation of this branch. The most obvious clue within Balto-Slavic itself is the formal identity of Baltic a-preterits and a-presents. Some recent refinements in our understanding of the Indo-European ah 2-presents and their development in Balto-Slavic (where they were specialized as a deverbative formation with iterative value) allow us to postulate that the Balto-Slavic a-aorist goes back to the imperfect of a Balto-Slavic a-iterative.

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