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Lith. “mirti” / Latv. “mirt” ‘to die’ and Lith. “miršti” / Latv. “mirst” ‘to forget’ in East Baltic

Yoko Yamazaki

Abstract

    The verbs Lith. miti / Latv. mirt ‘to die’ and Lith. (-)mišti / Latv. (-)mrst ‘to forget’ share several features in historical morphology: both take sta-present stem, in spite of their Indo-European cognates in the *-ye/o- present stem; the root-aorist in the middle voice inflection can be reconstructed in PIE; and both are also semantically middle. However, they are contrastive in the past tense in Baltic, taking different preterit stems, i.e., Lith. mrė / Latv. miru(ē) and Lith. mišo / Latv. mrsu(ā). This article will investigate what led them to choose the different preterit stems by comparing their semantic and phonological properties, and will contribute to the reconstruction of the entire prehistory of the Baltic preterit system. In this article, it will be proposed that Lith. mrė / Latv. miru(ē) is probably descended from the older imperfect, while its aoristic nature led Lith. mišo / Latv. mrsu(ā) to inherit the older aorist stem, and this historical difference may be reflected in their different preterit stems.

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S aipsniai / A icles 11 YOKO YAMAZAKI S ockholm Uni e si y, Uni e si y o Zu ich Fields o esea ch: Bal ic linguis ics, his o ical linguis ics, Indo-Eu opean compa a i e linguis ics. DOI: doi.o g/10.35321/all83-01 LITH. MITI / LATV. MIRT ‘TO DIE’ AND LITH. MIŠTI / LATV. MÌRST ‘TO FORGET’ IN EAST BALTIC1 Lie . mi i / la . mi ‘mi i’ i lie . miš i / la . m s ‘pami š i’ y ų bal ų kalbose ANNOTATION The e bs Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. (-)miš i / La . (-)m s ‘ o o ge ’ sha e se e al ea u es in his o ical mo phology: bo h ake s a-p esen s em, in spi e o hei Indo-Eu opean cogna es in he *-ye/o- p esen s em; he oo -ao is in he middle oice in lec ion can be econs uc ed in PIE; and bo h a e also seman ically middle. Howe e , hey a e con as i e in he pas ense in Bal ic, aking di e en p e e i s ems, i.e., Li h. m ė / La . mi u(ē) and Li h. mišo / La . m su(ā). This a icle will in es iga e wha led hem o choose he di e en p e e i s ems by compa ing hei seman ic and phonological p ope ies, and will con ibu e o he econs uc ion o he en i e p ehis o y o he Bal ic p e e i sys em. In his a icle, i will be p oposed ha Li h. m ė / La . mi u(ē) is p obably descended om he olde impe ec , while i s ao is ic na u e led Li h. mišo / La . m su(ā) o inhe i he olde ao is s em, and his his o ical di e ence may be e lec ed in hei di e en p e e i s ems. 1 This a icle p esen s some o he esul s o a p ojec en i led The p ehis o y o he Bal ic p e e i sys em – diach onic changes and mo phoseman ics ( eg. N . 2018-00473), inanced by he Swedish Resea ch Council (Ve enskaps åde ). I am hank ul o gene ous inancial suppo om he council, and o D . Paul Widme , D . Ka in S übe , and D . Ma hias Jenny o Uni e si y o Zu ich o hei aluable commen s on an ea lie e sion o his pape . My co dial g a i ude also ex ends o D . Lamon An ieau o his p oo eading o he manusc ip , and o MA G e a Klimai ė o he p oo eading o he anno a ion (ano acija) in Li huanian. YOKO YAMAZAKI 12 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII KEYWORDS: Bal ic e bs, aspec , mi i, miš i, ā-p e e i , ē-p e e i , his o ical mo phology, ao is , impe ec . ANOTACIJA Du eiksmažodžiai – lie . mi i / la . mi ‘mi i’ i lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s ‘pami š i’ – u i kele ą bend ų is o inės mo ologijos ypa ybių: abu šie eiksmažodžiai u i esamojo laiko s a- kamieną, nepaisan giminiškų indoeu opie iškų esamojo laiko *-ye/o- kamienų o mų; iš indoeu opiečių p okalbės galima ekons uo i, kad šių eiksmažodžių šakniniai ao is ai linksniuojami kaip medijai; abu šie eiksmažodžiai pasižymi medijų seman ika. Vis dėl o palyginus bal ų kalbas ma y i, kad jų p e e i ų kamienai ski iasi: lie . m ė / la . mi u (ē) i lie . mišo / la . m su (ā). Šiame s aipsnyje lyginan seman ines i onologines ypa ybes i iama, kodėl šie eiksmažodžiai įgijo ski ingus p e e i o kamienus, bei p isidedama p ie isos p o obal ų kalbos p e e i o sis emos ekons ukcijos. S aipsnyje eigiama, kad lie . m ė / la . mi u (ē) ik iausiai y a kilęs iš senojo impe ek o kamieno, o lie . mišo / la . m su (ā) dėl ao is inių seman inių ypa ybių galė ų bū i kilęs iš senojo ao is o kamieno. Šis is o inis ski umas a sispindi ski inguose jų p e e i o kamienuose. ESMINIAI ŽODŽIAI: bal ų eiksmažodžiai, eikslas, mi i, miš i, ā-p e e i o kamienas, ē-p e e i o kamienas, bal ų kalbų mo ologinė is o ija, ao is as, impe ek as. §1. The mo phological con as o he wo e bs, Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. (-)miš i / La . (-)m s ‘ o o ge ’, in hei p e e i o ms is he cen al opic o his pape . Excep o hei oo s uc u e (C- o Li h. mi i / La . mi and CC- o Li h. (-)miš i / La . (-)m s ), he wo e bs sha e a numbe o his o ical and mo phological ea u es. To name a ew, bo h o m s a- p esen s in Eas Bal ic, bo h ha e cogna es in Indo-Eu opean languages wi h he p esen s em in *-ye/o- and he oo -ao is in lec ing in he middle oice, and bo h a e also seman ically middle: 1) Li h. in . mi i, p es. m š a, p e . m ė; La . in . mi , p es. mi s u, p e . mi u(ē) ‘ o die’: OCS p es. 3sg. umьŕe ъ (Zo), in . m ě i, oo -ao . 2/3sg. m ě( ъ); Sln. p es. 1sg. m jèm; Sk . p es. 2sg. mid. m iyáse, p . 3sg. mam a, oo -ao . mid. 3sg. ám a (LIV2 439); YA . ma - ‘ o die’, p es. 3sg. mid. ami iiei e, 2sg. inj. mid. auua.mi iiaŋha, OPe s. ma - ‘ o die’, imp . 3sg. mid. am(a) iya ā, Manichean MPe s. my -, Zo oas ian MPe s. my - /m - / ‘ o die’, Pa ian my - ‘ o die’, Sogd. my - (bo h in Ch is ian and Buddhis ex s) ‘ o die’ (Cheung 2007: 264–265); La . mo io ; OHi . (* oo -ao . ac . >) oo -ao . mid. me a ‘disappea ed, wen los ’; om PIE *me - ‘ o die’ (LIV2 439); 2) Li h. (-)miš i, (-)miš a, (-)mišo; La . (-)m s , (-)m s u, (-)m su(ā) ‘ o o ge ’: Sk . p es. 3sg. mid. mya e, p . mamá a, oo -ao . mid. 3sg. amṭa, a-ao . mid. 3pl. áman a ‘ o o ge ’ (LIV2 440–441); S aipsniai / A icles 13 Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. miš i / La . m s ‘ o o ge ’ in Eas Bal ic Manichean MPe s. ’mwš-, Zo oas ian MPe s. pl’mwš- / āmōš- / ‘ o o ge ’, p es. 3sg. pl’mwšy / āmōšēd /, Pa ian ’mwš- ‘ o o ge ’, p es. 3sg. ’mwšyd; Sogd. ’’wyšcy, β ’wcy, MSogd. ’wycyh ‘ o ge ulness’ (Cheung 2007: 268–269); TochB (III) mä se ä ‘ o o ge ’; om PIE *me s- (LIV2 440–441). Consequen ly, a p esen s em in *-ye/o- (3sg. *m-yo ‘dies’ 3sg. * ms-yo ‘ o ge s’) and he oo -ao is (3sg. *m- o ‘died’, 3sg. *ms- o ‘ o go ’; p obably wi h a ze o-g ade oo and den al endings) in he middle oice can be secu ely econs uc ed o P o o-Indo-Eu opean o bo h. Fu he mo e, he pa e n sha ed by hese wo e bs is associa ed wi h he “s a i e-in ansi i e sys em” (Jasano 2003: 155, 160), cha ac e ized by he a es a ions o passi e ao is (o he ablau ing middle oo ao is ) in non-passi e use, s a i e pe ec , and in ansi i e(-inchoa i e) ye/o-p esen (and also he Bal o-Sla ic -p esen s o ē-s a i es) in he Indo-Eu opean languages. The e bal oo s associa ed wi h his sys em a e supposed o deno e en y in o a s a e. Appa en ly, he a chaic ablau ing middle oo ao is does no seem o ha e been inhe i ed by hese wo e bs in Eas Bal ic. Gi en hese esemblances, hey can be expec ed o ha e simila his o ical de elopmen om PIE o Bal ic, s ill exhibi ing he same mo phological pa e ns in he Bal ic languages. Howe e , Li h. mi i / La . mi akes he ē-p e e i , while Li h. miš i / La . m s akes he ā-p e e i . O cou se, he p esence o mé a onie ude in m š a ‘die(s)’ and he absence he eo in miš a ‘ o ge (s)’ does no appea o be a i ial di e ence. This will be discussed in §7 below. I he ia-p esen s em is he sou ce o he ē-p e e i s em, as ad oca ed by Ba on (1980) and Villanue a S ensson (2005, 2006), he e mus ha e been a eason o PB *miśya- no in oducing *-(i)yā- o i s p e e i s em. This aises he ques ion (a leas o he p esen au ho ) o wha allowed hem o c ea e di e en p e e i s em o ma ions. §2. Be o e mo ing o wa d in ou discussion, some discussion o he p ehis o y o he Bal ic p e e i sys em and o p e ious esea ch on he his o ical backg ound o he Bal ic ā-p e e i and ē-p e e i is equi ed. Al hough a ious hypo heses ha e been p esen ed o explain why hese o ma ions di e , no all o hem can be p esen ed he e due o limi a ions o space. To begin, he Bal ic languages ha e wo p e e i s ems, as is well known: he ā-p e e i and he ē-p e e i . Any gi en e b in hese languages akes one o hese wo s ems in he pas ense, which means ha he wo s ems a e in complemen a y dis ibu ion. The e is only one excep ion o his ule – he p e e i o b i ‘ o be’ in Old Li huanian. While he p e e i o ms o Li h. b i / La . bû ‘ o be’ a e bu o and biju in s anda d Li huanian and La ian, espec i ely, OLi h. 3sg. p e . bi i and OP u. be (beside bēi, bei) a e a es ed as he p e e i o ms o he e b meaning YOKO YAMAZAKI 14 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII ‘ o be’. These o ms appa en ly had no s em- o ming su ix like *-ā- o *-ē-. OP u. be can be equa ed wi h OCS bě, which is he impe ec o by i ‘ o be’, bu in lec s like an ao is (c . S ang 1942: 85). OP u. be can also be compa ed wi h some hing akin o he ao is o s a i e e bs o he ype sėdjo o sėd i, sdi ‘ o be si ing’, p esen ed in S ang (1966: 381), and i s his o ical backg ound does no seem s aigh o wa d.2 Bu OLi h. bi i is p obably based on an impe ec o *bhuh2-ye/o- ‘ o become’ (→ PBS *bh(w)ī- > PB *bī), combined wi h he a hema ic p ima y ending 3sg. - i (S ang 1966: 380).3 4 La . biju has he same impe ec -based s em, bu is ex ended by he Bal ic p e e i s em *-ā- and he hia us b eake -j-, e.g., 1sg. *bī-jā-ō. Thus, i can be obse ed ha , la e han he o he e bs, he p e e i o Li h. b i accep ed he new Bal ic p e e i o ma ion ule using he su ixes *-ā- and *-ē-, whe eby he o me impe ec s em was di ec ly ollowed by he p ima y ending. This enables us o in e how he Bal ic e bs migh ha e been u nished wi h hei p e e i s ems. Mos likely, he p e e i s ems in Bal ic we e o iginally o med wi h an impe ec o ao is -based s em ollowed by he ( hema ic o a hema ic) p ima y ending. The p e e i su ixes *-ā- and *-ē- we e la e in oduced o all he e bs due o addi ional ac o s, wi h a leas one such ac o immedia ely coming o mind. The impe ec o ms wi hou he augmen o some e bs would ha e sha ed he same o m wi h he p esen o ms, i he impe ec -based p e e i o ms had s a ed aking he p ima y endings in P o o-Bal ic, as seen in OLi h. bi i, e.g., PBS p es. *Ha [H]-ye- (i), imp . *Ha [H]-ye- (→ p es. / imp . *a -ya- (i) > Li h. ã ia, ã ė o á i ‘ o plow’)5. I mus ha e become necessa y o dis inguish 2 Klingenschmi (1982: 3–5) sugges s ha OCS bě and OP u. be a e a con inua ion o he augmen ed impe ec *(h1)e-h1es-, wi h a seconda y b- aken om associa ed o ms, such as in . by i, bū on, e c. 3 ModLi h. bu o is a comple ely new o ma ion based on he in ini i e b i / pe ec ac i e pa iciple bu - wi h he Bal ic p e e i su ix *-( )ā-. 4 A di e en his o ical in e p e a ion o he o m is p oposed by Os owski (2008: 463–464), acco ding o which he inal syllable - i in bi i is no a pe sonal ending bu would his o ically be an encli ic p onoun, e.g., dsi- (duosiu au) ‘I will gi e you’ (BB Pa , 3,28). This would, howe e , lea e a ques ion, i.e., whe he bi i would be well- o med, since he p edic ed o m bi i would ha e nei he a s em- o ming owel no a pe sonal ending. As igh ly s a ed by Os owski (2008), he a hema ic p ima y ending was o he wise ne e a es ed in he Bal ic p e e i o ms. Howe e , since he hema ic p ima y endings a e used in p e e i o ms (e.g., 1sg. -au < *-ā-u, 2sg. -ai < *-ā-i o he ā-p e e i ; 1sg. -iau < *-ē-u, 2sg. -ei < *-ē-i o he ē-p e e i , also see Ba on 1980: 269), i is no un easonable o assume ha he a hema ic p ima y endings could ha e been also used in p e e i o ms. The e o e, in he discussion in his sec ion, he classic iew by S ang is main ained. 5 The i-apocope would also ha e played a ole in he p ocess. S aipsniai / A icles 15 Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. miš i / La . m s ‘ o o ge ’ in Eas Bal ic he p esen and p e e i o ms by he s em o ma ions, which possibly equi ed an in oduc ion o he dedica ed p e e i su ixes. §3. I seems o be a widely sha ed no ion ha he Bal ic ā-p e e i su ix mo e o less sha es he same o igin as he Sla ic ā-ao is , o he second-s em ao is in -a- o he ype 1sg. bь axъ, 2/3sg. bь a ‘ o ake’ (S ang 1942: 189; Jasano 1983: 62), o med o he ze o-g ade oo .6 The p oblem wi h his idea is p esen ed by he o igin o he Bal ic ē-p e e i , which does no seem o ha e a di ec compa andum e en in i s closes b anch, Sla ic. S ang’s (1942: 83) assessmen should p obably be main ained on he poin ha he Sla ic ě-impe ec does no coincide wi h he Bal ic ē-p e e i because he Sla ic ě-impe ec does no pa icula ly occu wi h ansi i e e bs (bu i s occu ence is ins ead phonologically condi ioned), while he Bal ic ē-p e e i clea ly occu s equen ly wi h ansi i e e bs.7 Di e en ocalisms in he oo o he Sla ic ě-impe ec and he Bal ic ē-p e e i should also no be igno ed (S ang 1942: 84). The e o e, p e ious s udies ha e le he his o ical o igin o he ē-p e e i a p oblem o be sol ed. I is ue ha he Bal ic ē-p e e i o en occu s (e.g., nešė ‘ca ied’) whe e he s-ao is occu s in Sla ic (1sg. něšъ ‘ca ied’), and hus hese wo ca ego ies mus ha e had some hing in common. The e o e, Schmals ieg (1961) en isaged he possibili y ha he ē-p e e i de eloped om he Indo- Eu opean impe ec (2sg. *h1nee-s, 3sg. *h1nee- ‘ o ca y’), which occu s in he 2nd and 3 d pe son singula o he s-ao is pa adigm in Sla ic (2/3sg. neše). On he o he hand, he e is a comple ely di e en app oach ha sees he su ix o he ē-p e e i as de eloping h ough a sound change (*iyā > ē (Ku scha 1876; Schleiche 1856: 224 .; La sson 2010: 71 .)). This can be suppo ed by he ac ha he ē-p e e i is egula o he causa i e-i e a i e e bs in in . -y i, p es. *-ā (← PB *-iya- < PIE *eye/o-) o he ype móky i, s d. móko / dial. mókia, mókė ‘ o each’, whe e he p e e i s em *-ē- can be assumed in all likelihood o ha e de eloped om he impe ec -based s em in *-iyā- (c . Pede sen 1926: 11). Mo e ecen ly, Ba on (1980) and Villanue a S ensson (2005) elabo a ed on his hypo hesis. Ba on (1980) sugges s ha *-(i)y- was in oduced o he 6 S ang (id.) dis inguished be ween wo ā-p e e i ypes: 1) descendan s o he Bal o-Sla ic ā-ao is men ioned immedia ely abo e, and 2) descendan s o he Bal o-Sla ic hema ic ao is . As men ioned in S ang (id. 383), he hema ic ao is was p obably eplaced by he ā-ao is . The e o e, i can be said ha he ā-su ix o he ā-p e e i is a mo phological con inua ion o he Bal o-Sla ic ā-ao is . 7 Pace Ko land (2005: 168) and Jasano (2017: 229, n. 107), whe e he ē-p e e i is associa ed wi h he s a i e e bs in *-ē- (e.g., ek i ‘ o low’, gūž i ‘ o lie (unde some hing wa m)’), which is descended om he o iginal ins umen al ending *-eh1 acco ding o Jasano (1978: 123–125). YOKO YAMAZAKI 16 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII p e e i s em analogically om he p esen s em in *-ya- (< PIE *-ye/o-), pa icula ly in he cases o some e bs, including mi š a (← *mi ia( )). The p oposed analogical p ocess could be o mula ed as such: ea ly P o o-Bal ic p es. *mi -ya- :p e . *mi -ā- ↓ *mi ya- :*mi -yā- → *mi -ē- The -ē- su ix could ha e de eloped om *-(i)yā- h ough he pa adigm le eling igge ed by he 1s and 2nd pe son singula endings (1sg. *-yāu > -iau, 2sg. *-yāi > -ei), which would ha e esul ed in he same o ms as hose o he ē-p e e i (1sg. *-ēu > -iau, 2sg. *-ēi > -ei (Ba on 1980: 269)). Villanue a S ensson (2005) akes a mo e adical posi ion, p oposing ha o iginally P o o- Bal ic had only he ā-p e e i , and he ē-p e e i s basically de eloped om he *-iyā-s em, whe e he abo e-men ioned analogy in oduced he *-(i)y- elemen o he o iginal ā-p e e i s em o he ia-p esen s.8 This could ce ainly explain why he ē-p e e i is egula o he ia-p esen s, as desc ibed in such g amma s as Endzelīns (1923: 590) and S ang (1942: 191; 1966: 377). Applied o he case o mi i and miš i, howe e , his hypo hesis would p edic ha bo h o he e bs should ake he ē-p e e i , and would no explain why he p e e i o miš i emains an ā-p e e i . I is ue ha ha is exac ly how analogy wo ks, i.e., i does no a ec linguis ic o ms egula ly as a sound law does. In his pa icula case, howe e , pe haps a mo e sensible eason could be ound o why hese wo e bs ake di e en p e e i s ems in Bal ic. §4. A leas wo di e ences be ween he wo e bs can be obse ed. One is a di e ence in alency. Al hough bo h ha e middle- oice seman ics, whe eby he subjec s ha e li le con ol o e he e en s deno ed by hese e bs, Li h. miš i / La . m s is a ansi i e e b, as i (unde lyingly) akes an objec , whe eas Li h. mi i / La . mi p esumes no objec . Bu his ea u e would ha e na u ally led o Li h. miš i / La . m s aking an ē-p e e i a he han an ā-p e e i , and hus did no con ibu e o he e en ual ou come. The second di e ence can be seen in hei lexical aspec s. While Li h. mi i / La . mi has a dual aspec ual cha ac e , i.e., i can be ead as ei he impe ec i e o pe ec i e depending on con ex (c . Amb azas 1997: 235), his does no 8 In he cu en au ho ’s iew, i is possible ha he ē-p e e i has se e al di e en his o ical sou ces, c . Schmals ieg (1961). S aipsniai / A icles 17 Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. miš i / La . m s ‘ o o ge ’ in Eas Bal ic seem o be he case o Li h. miš i / La . m s . Gene ally in Li huanian, e bs wi hou any p e ixes a e g amma ically impe ec i e (c . Damb iūnas e al. 1990: 385; Amb azas 1997: 234–235), and Li h. mi i / La . mi is no excep ion o his ule, as shown in (3a, b). The La ian example in (3d) may bes demons a e he usual con as o unp e ixed and p e ixed e bs. Howe e , as in (3c), he impe ec i e o ms o Li h. mi i / La . mi in he p e e i ense can con ey pe ec i e meaning in a speci ic con ex : 3) a. Jis m š a. ‘he dies / is dying’ (Li huanian, Amb azas 1997: 235) ‘he’ ‘die’ imp . 3p es.; b. Žmónės m ė kasdien. ‘People died e e y day.’ (Li huanian, id.) ‘people’ pl. nom. ‘die’ imp . 3p e . ‘e e y day’; c. Me gai ė mi ė aka . ‘ he gi l died yes e day’ (Li huanian, id.) ‘gi l’ sg. nom. ‘die (p .)’ imp . 3p e . ‘yes e day’; d. Dažu dienu mi a un nenuomi a. ‘many’ ‘days’ gen. pl. ‘die’ imp . 3p e ‘and / bu ’ ‘die’ p . 3p e . ‘(he was) dying o many days, bu he did no die.’ (La ian, Endzelins 1948: 241). This is wha is mean by he “dual aspec ual” ea u e (Amb azas 1997: 235) o Li h. mi i / La . mi . Now, in he case o Li h. m š i / La . m s , he con as o unp e ixed (impe ec i e) and p e ixed (pe ec i e) o ms appea s o be di e en . 4) 9 a. Mi šau d ejus me us, ką jis sakė. ‘ o ge ’ imp . 1sg. ‘ wo (coll.)’ ‘yea ’ pl.acc. el-p on. acc, ‘he’ sg. nom. ‘say’ 3p e . ‘Fo wo yea s, I was ying o o ge wha he said.’ b. Užmi šau pe d ejus me us, ką jis sakė. ‘ o ge ’ 1sg. p e . p . ‘du ing’ ‘ wo (coll.)’ pl. acc. ‘yea ’ pl.acc. el-p on. acc. ‘he’ sg. nom. ‘say’ 3p e . ‘Wi hin wo yea s, I comple ely o go wha he said’. c. Rùsiškai a jaũ nemi šiù. (Li huanian, LKŽe) 9 I am indeb ed o my Li huanian in o man , MA G e a Klimai ė, o he language check on he da a in (4) and he ansla ions, and o he linguis ic ad ice on he da a. Needless o say, all emaining mis akes a e mine. YOKO YAMAZAKI 18 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII ‘Russian’ ‘so’ ‘al eady’ NEG- ‘ o ge ’ imp . 1sg. u .10 ‘I will de ini ely no o ge Russian.’ d. Mi šaũ mi šaũ i užmi šaũ isa, k js sãkė. (Li huanian, LKŽe) ‘ o ge ’ 1sg. p e . imp . ‘and’ ‘ o ge ’ p . 1sg. p e . ‘all, comple ely’ el-p on. acc. ‘he’ sg. nom. ‘say’ 3p e . ‘I kep o ge ing and comple ely o go all ha he said.’ e. Ká ė ešį jaũ p àdeda apmiš i. (Li huanian, LKŽe) ‘cow’ sg. nom. ‘cal ’ sg. acc. ‘al eady’ ‘s a ’ 3p es. ‘ o ge pa ially’ p . in . ‘The cow has s a ed o o ge i s cal .’ . Ká ė ešį jaũ p àdeda užmi šin i. ‘cow’ sg. nom. ‘cal ’ sg. acc. ‘al eady’ ‘s a ’ 3p es. ‘ o ge li le by li le’ p . (i e a i e). in . ‘The cow has s a ed o o ge i s cal .’ Li h. mi š i usually akes pe ec i e (p e ixed) o ms,11 and i s impe ec i e (unp e ixed) o ms in he p e e i could be associa ed wi h a peculia si ua ion like “ac i e o ge ing”, whe e he e en “ o ge ing” can ake some ime, and he subjec can be conscious o he p ocess, e.g., when ying o o ge a auma ic o unpleasan memo y, as in (4a). This indica es ha mi š i could ake g amma ical impe ec i e o ms; howe e , hey a e seldom used. In he u u e ense, he impe ec i e o ms seem o ins ead o e a pe ec i e meaning, as in (4c). Needless o say, he pe ec i e o ms deno e he pe ec i e aspec , as in (4d), as is o be expec ed (c . Damb iūnas 1958).12 These ac s s ongly poin o he pe ec i e lexical aspec o he e b mi š i. This may be suppo ed by he ollowing: he pe ec i e in ini i es can be used wi h o begin (p adė i, im i) and o end (baig i), as in (4e), bu such cons uc ions sound be e wi h he pe ec i e in ini i e o i e a i e (lexically impe ec i ized) e bs like užmi šin i, as in 4 (c . Damb iūnas 1958: 260). The ac ha he impe ec i e o ms o Li h. mi š i / La . mi s a e a ely used may indica e, om a his o ical pe spec i e, ha i may be he case ha he old ao is s we e ein o ced in Bal ic (and Sla ic) languages by adding p e ixes, i he p oposal by Os owski (2019: 57) is o be accep ed in ou cu en 10 The nega ion ma ke ne- is ce ainly a p e ix, bu i does no a ec e bal aspec (Damb iūnas 1958: 255). 11 La . mi s is also usually used wi h a p e ix aiz- o pie-, see ME II: 634. 12 The pe ec i e o ms can also indica e a esul a i e s a e, by aking a empo al ph ase exp essing he ex ension o ime, as in (2d). S aipsniai / A icles 19 Li h. mi i / La . mi ‘ o die’ and Li h. miš i / La . m s ‘ o o ge ’ in Eas Bal ic discussion. Acco ding o Os owski, e bs such as hese ha lack impe ec i e (= unp e ixed) o ms and o which only pe ec i e o ms a e used (e.g., *žin i, pažin i ‘ o ge o know’) a e p obably based on hei p e e i o ms, which a e descended om he olde ao is s. Thei ao is ic o pe ec i e aspec ual ea u e was ein o ced in Bal o-Sla ic by adding a p e ix (i.e., o ming he pe ec i e o ms). F om a phonological poin o iew, i canno be cla i ied whe he Li h. mi š- / La . mi s- is de i ed om he o iginal p esen o ao is s em, since he oo ocalism was he ze o g ade (*ms- > *mi ś-) in bo h enses in he middle oice. Ne e heless, such a heo e ical sugges ion would speak o an old ao is as he o igin o he p e e i *mi šā. §5. As ela ed o he specula ion abo e, an obse a ion can be made o he cogna es o Li h. mi i / La . mi and Li h. mi š i / La . mi s om Indic (c . 1 and 2 in §1). I is in e es ing o no e ha bo h he ao is and p esen injunc i e o ms a e a es ed o √m, while no p esen injunc i e o √m is ound in he Ti us Sansk i da abase.13 This con as can be ound only in Indic, because no in lec ional o ms o *me s- we e inhe i ed by Sla ic, bu bo h impe ec (3pl. mь ěxǫ, Sup asliensis 398, 24) and ao is (3sg. umь ě ъ Assemanianus 11c28, m ě ъ, Assemanianus 11d2’) o ms a e a es ed wi h ega d o *me -14. This a leas implies ha bo h he impe ec and ao is ca ego ies we e p obably in use in P o o-Bal o-Sla ic, albei he inno a i e o ma ion o he Sla ic impe ec . In ac , he p esen injunc i e o √m is no ound in Rig Veda (RV) no in A ha a Veda (AV), bu when he co po a o Sama Veda Jaiminīya B āhmaa (SV JB) and Jaiminīya Upaniad B āhmaa (SV JUB) a e included, a couple o hem a e ound (e.g., 3sg. m iya a SV JB 1, 242, 34a; SV JUB 3, 8, 10a,), while ha o √m is no . Al hough he exac dis inc ion be ween ao is and impe ec in he indica i e mood has been he subjec o much deba e,15 i seems clea ha 13 All he Rig edic and A ha a edic da a quo ed he e we e aken om Ho mann (1967). The da a om B āhmaas o Sama Veda we e supplied by he da abase a ailable a Ti us (A ailable a : h p:// i us. kidg1.uni- ank u .de/da abase/ i usinx/wo dwhl.h m#dS a [Accessed 1 Ma ch 2020]). Since he aspec ual dis inc ion be ween ao is and impe ec was obscu ed in he indica i e mood bu be e p ese ed in he injunc i e mood, I added he injunc i e o ms o he compa ison. This kind o quick su ey o he da abase is insu icien o knowing exhaus i ely he a es a ions o ce ain o ms, bu o he pu pose o he cu en discussion, i su ices o seeing he gene al endency o he s a e o a es a ions. 14 C . Ai ze mülle 1977: 252, 664. 15 The ao is indica i e is usually hough o e e o he ecen pas , whe eas he impe ec e e s o he emo e o his o ical pas (Delb ück 1876; Tichy 1997); consequen ly, he impe ec is ypically used in na a i es in la e Vedic ex s (Ho mann 1967). Howe e , he e a e o he iews, as well. Some (e.g., Gonda 1962; Kipa sky 1998) assume ha hei unc ions a e mo e aspec ual han he YOKO YAMAZAKI 26 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII Lie . mi i / la . mi ‘mi i’ i lie . miš i / la . m s ‘pami š i’ y ų bal ų kalbose SANTRAUKA Veiksmažodžiai – lie . mi i / la . mi ‘mi i’ i lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s ‘pami š- i’ – y a paliudy i y ų bal ų kalbose, o giminiški žodžiai y a gana plačiai paliudy i ki ose indoeu opiečių kalbose. Šių d iejų eiksmažodžių i giminiškų žodžių analizė odo, kad jie u i kele ą bend ų is o inės mo ologijos ypa ybių: abu šie eiksmažodžiai u i esamojo laiko s a- kamieną, nepaisan giminiškų indoeu opie iškų esamojo laiko *-ye/o- kamienų o mų; iš indoeu opiečių p okalbės galima ekons uo i, kad šių eiksmažodžių šakniniai ao is ai linksniuojami kaip medijai; abu šie eiksmažodžiai pasižymi medijų seman ika. Vis dėl o jų p e e i ų kamienai ski iasi: lie . m ė / la . mi u (ē) i lie . mišo / la . m su (ā). S aipsnyje pa eikiamas išsamus šių eiksmažodžių mo ologijos p iešis o ės, seman ikos i leksikos aspek ų y imas, įskai an lyginamuosius duomenis iš sla ų i indų kalbų. Ty imas suponuoja, kad lie . mi i / la . mi leksinis eikslas galė ų bū i impe ek inis a ba ao is i- nis, p iklausomai nuo kon eks o, o lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s a eju impe ek inė eikšmė y a e a; šis ski umas galėjo egzis uo i da p iešis o iniame e ape. Ki a e us, anks esnia- me y ime eigiama, kad iš ao is o kamienų kilę eiksmažodžiai dažnai ne u i g ama inio impe ek o o mų ( . y. ne u i p iešdėlių) bal ų kalbose. Taip gali bū i i lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s a eju, nes šis eiksmažodis e ai a ojamas be p iešdėlio. Taigi p ielaida, kad lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s ik iausiai y a kilęs iš ao is o kamieno, o lie . mi i / la . mi galė ų bū i kilęs iš senojo impe ek o kamieno, galimai susi o ma usio iš esamojo laiko *-ye/o- kamieno, pa i inama iek seman iniu, iek o maliuoju aspek u. Senasis impe ek- o kamienas *mi ya- ik iausiai ga o bal iško p e e i o kamieną suda ančią p iesagą *-ā-, iš ku ios kilo *mi yā- i išsi u uliojo į *mi ē- bal ų p okalbėje. Da oma iš ada, kad ski in- gos lie . mi i / la . mi ‘mi i’ i lie . (-)miš i / la . (-)m s ‘pami š i’ p e e i o kamienų o mos a spindi jų ski ingus is o inius kamienus, . y. impe ek o i ao is o kamienus, iš ku ių jie i kilo. Į eik a 2020 m. liepos 27 d. 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