The Origins of the Slavic Aorist

Frederik Kortlandt

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The Origins of the Slavic Aorist

In: Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists. Linguistics

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Pages:: 187–193

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417137_008

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Katsiaryna Ackermann has presented a detailed account of the oldest Slavic aorist forms of underived verbs with speculations about their origins (2014). Unfortunately, her theory of Slavic accentuation, which is largely based on Klingenschmitt’s, has long been outdated. It appears that the thematic presents without an acute root vowel adopted final stress on the analogy of the athematic presents before the incorporation of mogǫ and idǫ into the present system. The sigmatic aorist of underived verbs had fixed stress on the root, which is reflected as an acute (a) or long neo-acute (b) in the material. The root aorist was an athematic formation with mobile accentuation (c) and, consequently, a falling tone on the barytone forms of the paradigm. I have proposed that dastъ can be identified with Greek ἔδωκε ‘gave’ as a k-aorist *dōk with satǝm palatalization of the velar stop yielding *dōs and that bystъ is an analogical k-aorist, to be compared with the Greek perfect πέφῡκε ‘grows’. The paradigm 3sg. *stastāti, 3pl. *stastinti became the model for the Balto-Slavic causative formations. Accentual mobility was preserved in the paradigms of imamь and *zьnamь.

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Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists. Linguistics

Belgrade, August 20-27, 2018

Series: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Volume: 44

Cover Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists. Linguistics

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004417137

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 28 Oct 2019

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- Languages and Linguistics
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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