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- adjective linguistics Of a
root , not having athematic vowel and thus attachinginflections directly to the root.
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Examples
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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.
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Mar 05 2008 I decided to add footnote #1 because my use of "athematic" is ambiguous here.
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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
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First of all, the 1ps subjunctive is typically understood to simply be *(-o)-oh₂ (although Jasanoff convincingly argues for a purely "athematic"1 *-oh₂ in the earliest stage of PIE, contrasting with present indicative *-mi) and the 1ps optative is normally *-yeh₁m.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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First of all, the 1ps subjunctive is typically understood to simply be *(-o)-oh₂ (although Jasanoff convincingly argues for a purely "athematic"1 *-oh₂ in the earliest stage of PIE, contrasting with present indicative *-mi) and the 1ps optative is normally *-yeh₁m.
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Mar 05 2008 I decided to add footnote #1 because my use of "athematic" is ambiguous here.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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1 By "athematic", I mean this in terms of traditionally theorized PIE grammar.
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1 By "athematic", I mean this in terms of traditionally theorized PIE grammar.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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These speeches, much as I admire them at one level "" and I really do "" are also narrowly focused and essentially athematic.
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One of the things I came face to face with the other day was the matter of "the look" of athematic versus thematic verb stems in the earliest stage of Common Proto-Indo-European.
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