Not a linguist, but I think this is just a matter of proto-indo-european having complicated morphology and its descendants reverting to the mean. A related red

Not a linguist, but I think this is just a matter of proto-indo-european having complicated morphology and its descendants reverting to the mean. A related reddit thread (I know, I know, sorry): https://old.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/o12hy0/instances_of_languages_getting_morphologically/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/o12hy0/instanc... It's worth noting of course that there is more to grammar than morphology.