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Baltic sta-presents and the Indo-European desiderative by Svensson Villanueva is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Baltic sta-presents are a productive verbal formation for anticausative and inchoative verbs. They stay in complementary distribution with nasal presents, stapresents being originally restricted to TERT-and TER-roots (the later with regular métatonie rude). The only reasonable cognate of the sta-presents is Slavic \*orste-"grow", which suggests that we are dealing with a Balto-Slavic formation of still disputed origin. In this article it is proposed that Baltic sta-presents (Balto-Slavic \*ste/o-presents) originated in the 3 sg. middle of an athematic desiderative (Lith. mìrs ˇta "dies", virsta "turns into, becomes" h \*mér-h 1 s-toi "wishes to die", \*Üért-s-toi "wishes to turn"). Forms like \*mér-h 1 s-toi, \*Üért-s-toi would be the regular middle counterpart of the Indo-European Narten desiderative that gave rise to the Baltic future tense. In some verbs they became unmarked present stems, a development favored by the common northern Indo-European trend to develop a productive class of anticausative-inchoative verbs and by the fact that infixal nasal presents could not be freely derived from all root structures. The zero grade of the sta-presents was taken from the thematic aori
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- Author
- Svensson Villanueva
- Publisher
- Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- DE
- ISBN
- 9781283164955
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)