Word Order and verb endings

[Robert Orr]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Kreso Megyeral wrote:

> [... W]hat is general opinion on theory that PIE had the opposition
> between indefinite and definite conjugation, as Hungarian does. Some
> of the linguists interpret thematic vowel in declension and
> conjugation as some kind of suffixated article. The theory is proved
> by the fact that there is no intransitive thematic vowel of
> undisputable IE origin. Your attitudes?

There's an article by Kortlandt in JIES 1983 or 1984 addressing this iusse.
He refers to earlier work by Knobloch (1950's) making this very suggestion.

Robert Orr