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You also have to look at the fact that most of the re presentives from the various states add up to a PRI majority.
AMLO in the NYTimes 2005
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Also, if the above is correct, we have an ugly situation where the present appears to be marked with an extra ending *-i despite a strong tendency in languages for presentives to be less marked than their preterite counterparts.
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Also, if the above is correct, we have an ugly situation where the present appears to be marked with an extra ending *-i despite a strong tendency in languages for presentives to be less marked than their preterite counterparts.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The suffix *-ye/o- is found in presentives, in denominal verbs and I'd dare even say fossilized to the causative in *-eye/o-.
Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007
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