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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011
the "stem" in the future passive 3d pl. indicative EKLUQHSONTAI is EKLUQHS-
and that this stem is regularly followed by an alternating thematic vowel
O/E, O when the personal (pronominal) ending originally began with a nasal
(-MEN,-NT), E in every other case. Ward explains rather that the "aspect
morph" is -SO- and argues that in a form like EKLUQHSESQE, the O of the
stem EKLUQHSO- is "elided" before an ending -ESQE. From my historical
perspective I want to protest that there never was such a form as
EKLUQHSOESQE and that, if there had been, the result would have been a
contracted form, namely EKLUQHSOUSQE.
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>6. All aspect morphs are elision morphs. This applies not only to the
>punctiliar -SA-, but also to the -o-/-e- in the present/imperfect and the
>Second Aorist, and the -KA- perfective aspect morph This means that
>wherever the morph that is appended to the aspect morph commences with a
>vowel, the vowel of the aspect morph elides. This occurs in the third
>person singular form (imperfect, aorist and perfect tenses; thus LELUKEN);
>throughout the aorist subjunctive active and middle (e.g., LUSWMEQA), the
>pluperfect active (e.g., ELELUKEIMEN), and some other individual forms
>(e.g., LUSON). I don't see any exceptions.
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