Abstract
.aKa4/a : perf. a9tKaca might lead to P iXcaa beside 9PXata. The reason why this theory alone cannot account for the facts is that all the assumed inducing forms are ambiguous. The first element of Gk. 41 is a part of the phoneme 4 as well as a part of the phoneme r, and therefore arKac/a must have been interpreted as containing the stem TKaWas long as this stem was clearly preserved in numerous related forms. Osthoff discovered a part of the machinery by which the aspirated perfects spread; but he did not point out the necessary models in which an aspirate in the perfect came to stand beside an unambiguous non-aspirate in related forms. A further weakness of Osthoff's treatment was that he did not take into account the remarkable distribution of the aspirated perfects in Homeric Greek. This had already been pointed out and Osthoff duly mentioned it; but, since it did not fit into his explanation, he simply disregarded it. In Homer the aspirated perfect is confined to third
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