Latin perfects

[CONNOLLY at LATTE.MEMPHIS.EDU]

>Anthony Appleyard said:

>> I had an idea that Latin perfects with a {v} inserted may have come by
>> contraction of a periphrastic perfect using the Latin perfect active
>> participle [in -vos..]

Oddly, Peter Gray agreed.  Trouble is, Latin doesn't have a perfect active
participle, or any other participle that looks like this.  Are we confusing the
*Greek* perfect active participle?  Nah; that has a stem in -ot-.  What's going
on?

Leo

Leo A. Connolly                         Foreign Languages & Literatures
connolly at latte.memphis.edu              University of Memphis