Abstract Building on Melchert’s observation that in Old Hittite narrative texts an aspectual system seems to be used that is different from the aspectual system found in the majority of Hittite texts (Melchert 1998), this article discusses the nature of the tense-aspect system of Proto-Indo-European, especially on the basis of a comparison between the Sanskrit and Hittite verbal systems (following observations and analyses by Pooth 2009). It is argued that the tense-aspect system of the Old Hittite narrative texts as described by Melchert may go back directly to the system that can be reconstructed for early Proto-Indo-European, namely one in which there was no distinction in tense, but rather a distinction between progressive and non-progressive aspect.

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古赫梯人和原始印欧时态系统

摘要 基于 Melchert 的观察，即在古赫梯叙事文本中使用的方面系统似乎不同于大多数赫梯文本 (Melchert 1998) 中的方面系统，本文讨论了 Proto 的时态系统的性质。 - 印欧语系，特别是基于梵语和赫梯语系统之间的比较（根据 Pooth 2009 的观察和分析）。有人认为，梅尔切特所描述的古赫梯叙事文本的时态系统可能会直接回到早期原始印欧语系可以重建的系统，即没有时态区别的系统，但而是渐进和非渐进方面的区别。