Indo-European origins of Armenian aorist stems
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714103
Kazaryan V. K. Indoyevropeyskiye istoki
obrazovaniya osnov armyanskogo aorista. Acta Linguistica
Petropolitana. 68.
The paper addresses the characteristic
traits of the aorist as opposed to the present in
Proto-Indo-European and Old Armenian. At the second and third
stages in the development of Proto-Indo-European, the tense was
marked by verbal endings, while the aspect was marked by stems. The
root aorist stem could be recharacterised by secondary imperfective
markers (affixes, reduplication) and the root present could be
recharacterised by secondary perfective markers (reduplication, the
sigmatic suffix). The resulting morphological make-up of an
opposition of the present and aorist stems was verb-specific; one
of the two stems was marked while another one non-marked.The
Proto-Indo-European opposition of tense-aspect stems was
strengthened by the development of the imperfect, because the
formal match of the present and aorist stems would yield the
non-distinction of the aorist and imperfect tenses. This state of
affairs is represented in Old Indic and, to some extend, in Ancient
Greek and Old Church Slavic. Similarly, Old Armenian retained and
developed the binary opposition of the present and aorist stems,
which resulted in the rise of regular verbal classes with stable
combinations of marked and non-marked stems.
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