Momentary-Durative

[petegray]

Jens said:

> [In Sanskrit] zero-grade thematic verbs have the same
> history as the thematic aorists ... [etc, deriving them from a long chain
of reformulations:  middle > middle +t > (reinterpreted as active) >
(extension by analogy to all other persons) > (reinterpreted as imperfect) >
(re-creation of a new present).]

Apart from the superficial implausibility of all this, and the fact that
other aorists were not reformulated as imperfects, and did not create new
present tenses, where is your evidence?

Peter