Perfect, middle voice and Indoeuropean verbal endings
A review of new theories on the origin of perfect and middle voice. The author criticizes theories explaining the origin of perfect from nominal forms and attributing to thematic vowel and original value of middle voice. On the contrary, perfect as well as middle voice originated from forms older th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1981 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/383756 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/383756 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Linguistic research Indo-european languages |
| Sumario: | A review of new theories on the origin of perfect and middle voice. The author criticizes theories explaining the origin of perfect from nominal forms and attributing to thematic vowel and original value of middle voice. On the contrary, perfect as well as middle voice originated from forms older than these cathegories and independent from them. This is precisely the case of the thematic vowel. The author believes this is only a part of the general development of Indoeuropean verb which stems from a monothematic system toward a polythematic one. Actually, perfect and middle voice belong to the oldest stage in this process. This is a further step on the base of ideas exposed by the author in his “Evolución y estructura del verbo indoeuropeo” and other works. |
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