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Proto-Indo-European verbs
Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their aspect, using multiple grammatical moods and voices, and being conjugated according to person, number and tense. In addition to finite forms thus formed, non-finite forms such as participles are also extensively used.
The verbal system is clearly represented in Ancient Greek and Vedic Sanskrit, which closely correspond in nearly all aspects of their verbal systems, and are two of the most well-understood of the early daughter languages of Proto-Indo-European.
The reconstruction of verb conjugation in Proto-Indo-European is controversial. The system described here is known as the "Cowgill–Rix" system, which explains fairly well the data found in most subfamilies of Indo-European. However, this reconstruction encounters significant difficulties when applied to the Anatolian and to some extent the Tocharian branch. For this reason, this system is often thought to have formed not in PIE proper, but at a later stage, after Anatolian and possibly Tocharian had split off. Even so, there is no consensus concerning what the ancestral system of verb conjugation prior to the split-off of Anatolian looked like, and which Anatolian differences are innovations vs. archaisms.
The Cowgill-Rix system involves the interplay of six dimensions (number, person, voice, mood, aspect and tense) with the following variables:
Further, participles can be considered part of the verbal systems although they are not verbs themselves, and as with other PIE nouns, they can be declined across seven or eight cases, for three genders and three numbers.
The starting point for the morphological analysis of the PIE verb is the root. PIE roots are morphemes with lexical meanings, which usually consist of a single vowel flanked by one or more consonants arranged to very specific rules.
Before the final endings – to denote number, person, etc. – can be applied, additional elements (S) may be added to the root (R). The resulting component here after any such affixion is the stem, to which the final endings (E) can then be added to obtain the conjugated forms.
Verbs, like nominals, made a basic distinction based on whether a short, ablauting vowel -e- or -o-, called the thematic vowel was affixed to the root before the final endings added.
Proto-Indo-European verbs
Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their aspect, using multiple grammatical moods and voices, and being conjugated according to person, number and tense. In addition to finite forms thus formed, non-finite forms such as participles are also extensively used.
The verbal system is clearly represented in Ancient Greek and Vedic Sanskrit, which closely correspond in nearly all aspects of their verbal systems, and are two of the most well-understood of the early daughter languages of Proto-Indo-European.
The reconstruction of verb conjugation in Proto-Indo-European is controversial. The system described here is known as the "Cowgill–Rix" system, which explains fairly well the data found in most subfamilies of Indo-European. However, this reconstruction encounters significant difficulties when applied to the Anatolian and to some extent the Tocharian branch. For this reason, this system is often thought to have formed not in PIE proper, but at a later stage, after Anatolian and possibly Tocharian had split off. Even so, there is no consensus concerning what the ancestral system of verb conjugation prior to the split-off of Anatolian looked like, and which Anatolian differences are innovations vs. archaisms.
The Cowgill-Rix system involves the interplay of six dimensions (number, person, voice, mood, aspect and tense) with the following variables:
Further, participles can be considered part of the verbal systems although they are not verbs themselves, and as with other PIE nouns, they can be declined across seven or eight cases, for three genders and three numbers.
The starting point for the morphological analysis of the PIE verb is the root. PIE roots are morphemes with lexical meanings, which usually consist of a single vowel flanked by one or more consonants arranged to very specific rules.
Before the final endings – to denote number, person, etc. – can be applied, additional elements (S) may be added to the root (R). The resulting component here after any such affixion is the stem, to which the final endings (E) can then be added to obtain the conjugated forms.
Verbs, like nominals, made a basic distinction based on whether a short, ablauting vowel -e- or -o-, called the thematic vowel was affixed to the root before the final endings added.