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The Balto-Slavic infinitive reflects Proto-Indo-European third-person singular present endings
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Linguistic reference material addresses the proposed connection and explicitly distinguishes the Balto-Smavic infinitive suffix from Proto-Indo-European third-person singular present endings, noting they are historically and essentially different.

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Balto-Slavic Infinitive and PIE 3rd p., sg, present endings
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# Balto-Slavic Infinitive and PIE 3rd p., sg, present endings Tags: proto-indo-european, morphosyntax - Score: 5 - Views: 450 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: LinguistNewbie (53 rep) - Asked: 2016-05-30 - Edited: 2016-05-30 - Site: linguistics ## Question I'm curious to ask if the suffix -tī for the infinitive in Balto-Slavic is related to the PIE third person, singular, present suffix -ti? Although there is no reason (from a functional point of reasoning) to suppose such a relation, I recently learnt that the only "dialect" of Balto-Slavic that has undergone a transition to analyticity, namely Bulgaro-Macedonian, has lost both the infinitive and the ending -ti in 3rd p, sg verb conjugation, so morphologically there is some point in conjecturing some relation... ## Answers ### Answer by Be Brave Be Like Ukraine (score: 2 [ACCEPTED]) TL;DR: Infinitive suffix "-ти" and 3rd person singular present "-тъ" are essentially different. They could reduce independently in Slavonic languages, but if they are both reduced, this seems to be just a coincidence. In his "Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619), Meletius Smotrytsky marks 3rd person singular present suffix -тъ (
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