The development of the sigmatic aorist in Armenian

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714106

Kortlandt F. Razvitiye sigmaticheskogo aorista v armyanskom yazyke. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 149.

If sigmatic stems were productive in Proto-Armenian and they spread to the inherited root aorists, why so many root aorists remained intact? The essential point is that there were two periods of expansion of the sigmatic aorist, viz. before and after the loss of intervocalic *h < *s.

Keywords

sigmatic aorist, root aorist, loss of intervocalic *h < *s

About the author

Kortlandt Frederik

Prof. Dr., Professor of the Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics Department of Leiden University, Leiden. (Leiden)

f.kortlandt@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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Keywords

sigmatic aorist, root aorist, loss of intervocalic *h < *s