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- noun linguistics In
Proto-Indo-European linguistics , a term used to describe anablaut form of a Proto-Indo-European root, characterised by the presence of the */o/ vowel phoneme in place of */e/.
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Now the question left is why the bizarre replacement of o-grade 3ps with a lengthened e-grade form with an entirely different ending, seemingly on the side of increasing system irregularity?
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Now the question left is why the bizarre replacement of o-grade 3ps with a lengthened e-grade form with an entirely different ending, seemingly on the side of increasing system irregularity?
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite 2009
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So the 3sg hi- preterite ending has an expected *o-grade.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite 2009
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Rob: Then there is the strange vowel/accent pattern, with accent on the o-grade vowel.
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I will suggest briefly that perhaps there was originally a simple two-fold distinction between 'non-completed' actions in e-grade and 'completed' actions in a-grade later o-grade due to Vowel Shift at the end of the Late IE period.
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Then there is the strange vowel/accent pattern, with accent on the o-grade vowel.
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I will suggest briefly that perhaps there was originally a simple two-fold distinction between 'non-completed' actions in e-grade and 'completed' actions in a-grade later o-grade due to Vowel Shift at the end of the Late IE period.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Notice that in my system, all verbs began to ablaut because of vowel harmony and eventually the a-grade later becoming o-grade would become productive as a signal of stativeness.
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