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  • Thus by comparison with the traditional "thematic subjunctive" *-o-oh₂, Jasanoff's new interpretation of *-o-h₂ is relatively "athematic" although ironically the *-o- here is still the distinctive thematic vowel of the subjunctive seen in the "athematic verbs" of the traditional theory.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Thus by comparison with the traditional "thematic subjunctive" *-o-oh₂, Jasanoff's new interpretation of *-o-h₂ is relatively "athematic" although ironically the *-o- here is still the distinctive thematic vowel of the subjunctive seen in the "athematic verbs" of the traditional theory.

    Lehmann's dismissal of PIE *swe 2008

  • If what I'm saying is correct that the 1ps subjunctive was in effect an old reflexive perfective, then we have a grammatical reason to justify the attested avoidance of *-i in being used in *-o-h₂.

    Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007

  • If what I'm saying is correct that the 1ps subjunctive was in effect an old reflexive perfective, then we have a grammatical reason to justify the attested avoidance of *-i in being used in *-o-h₂.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • "O-h! o-h!" ejaculated the shop-woman, lifting her eyebrows in a surprised way.

    Cast Adrift 1847

  • 'O-h, o-h,' she would say, 'no bell sounded at thy burial, Waldemar Daa.

    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

  • Further, the emergence of *-o-h₂(e) in the 1ps subjunctive (and later in the derivative thematic present of Core IE dialects) could add to this account since the specific replacement of original objective subjunctive *-o-m with a subjective marker would be due to the fact that the 1ps is the only person where speaker and subject are the same and the only person subsequently of which one's own potential actions are spoken with the utmost authority.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Further, the emergence of *-o-h₂(e) in the 1ps subjunctive (and later in the derivative thematic present of Core IE dialects) could add to this account since the specific replacement of original objective subjunctive *-o-m with a subjective marker would be due to the fact that the 1ps is the only person where speaker and subject are the same and the only person subsequently of which one's own potential actions are spoken with the utmost authority.

    Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model 2009

  • "'O-h, o-h,' she sighed; for people can sigh like the moaning of the wind among the reeds and rushes.

    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

  • Tmirat n \J/t#w f** xat ccmtrei xat ret xftfJULra o-h/3owflw0-« fJLOt x.t. g.]

    Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine 1784

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