<HTML><BODY><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">In Akkadian, the Perfect tense (which functions much like the English Present Perfect) is generally thought to have emerged from the reflexive of the Past tense. Do you know of any other languages where the PERFECT has the same origin?</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Thank you very much,</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Sergey</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;">Dr. Sergey Loesov</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;">Oriental Institute</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;">Russian State University for the Humanities</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;">6 Miusskaya pl. 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