Re: Case question
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 27, 2003, 12:55 |
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At 05:38 27.11.2003, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Iranian does it in the past tense.
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>Historically, what happened was that, like the other Indo-Iranian langs,
>the past tense is historically derived from a passive. Thus, in the
Ditto in New IndoAryan. The passive construction:
Devadattena 'nnam pakvam
D-instr. food-nom. cooked-nom.
is quite common.
The standard example is crap since the
passive past participle _pakva-_ is
quite irregular. Normal PPPs are in -ta-.
/BP 8^)
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