eventive

Falling back on my recent insights on how Anatolian-Tocharian emerged out of my model note too my later relabelling of "eventive" as "progressive" in this model, I realize one interesting motivation for a conjectural loss of this participle.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Falling back on my recent insights on how Anatolian-Tocharian emerged out of my model note too my later relabelling of "eventive" as "progressive" in this model, I realize one interesting motivation for a conjectural loss of this participle.

The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009

I think I've come to an interesting idea that takes a page from the Ancient Egyptian verbal system: eventive versus non-eventive.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Surely experientials ie. later sigmatic aorists would belong in the "objective eventive" despite being unmarked by continuous *-i.

More on a PIE subjective-objective model 2009

However, the antecedent of sigmatic aorists ie. those verbs marked in *-s- with lengthened root vowel which originally expressed a past experience were by definition eventive as well.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

It's the difference between "I ate the baby (last night)" (eventive) and "I eat babies (in general)" (non-eventive).

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive ...

More on a PIE subjective-objective model 2009

New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive ...

The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009

New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive ...

Ancient Etruscan ointment discovered in Italy 2009

My previous description of my model was very tedious, I have to admit, but I think I can now sum my model up more concisely as a conjugation model that takes into account the definiteness of object (subjective vs. objective) and the definiteness of event (eventive vs. non-eventive).

More on a PIE subjective-objective model 2009