The Origins of the Indo-European Nominal Inflection
Author: Robert Stephen Paul Beekes
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 286
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Author: Robert Stephen Paul Beekes
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Shields
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helena Kurzová
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993-09-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9027277079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type). This development is demonstrated in Latin, a language characterized by highy developed inflection, which attests, especially by its verbal system, an alternative way of paradigmatizing the original structure, differing from Old Indian and Greek on which traditional reconstruction was based. The notion of derivative-flectional type is used to try to penetrate to the original form and historical sources of the IE flectional type without presupposing radical typological change between Proto-IE and IE. The author's view differs from the traditional theory of prehistoric change in IE structure (from isolation to flection via agglutination) in that she assumes the origins of flection lie in lexico-derivative categorization. The book is divided into three parts: 1. The Origins and Evolution of the Indo-European Flectional Type 2. The Basic Principles and Origins of the Nominal System and Inflections 3. The Indo-European Origins of the Latin Verbal System
Author: Calvert Watkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780618082506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.
Author: Andreas Willi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 747
ISBN-13: 1107195551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.
Author: Robert Dennis Fulk
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Ringe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 019928413X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. The focus throughout the book is on linguistic structure. In the course of his exposition Professor Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite,Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. Written to be intelligible to those with a background in modern linguistic theory, the first volume in Don Ringe's A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germaniclinguistics, the history of English, and historical linguists.The next volume in the History will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present.
Author: Kenneth Shields
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9027235880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into verbal structures in order to indicate the 'hic and nunc' and various degrees of remoteness from the 'hic and nunc'. The alterations to which these deictic elements were subject are viewed here in the context of an Indo-European language very different from Brugmannian Indo-European, many features of which, it is argued, appeared only in the period of dialectal development. This book challenges numerous traditional proposals about the Indo-European verb; all reconstructions contained in it are firmly based on extant data and are consonant with established principles of linguistic change.
Author: Wilhelm Lehmann
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald A. Ringe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0198792581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. In the course of his exposition Don Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. This second edition has been significantly revised to provide a more in-depth account of Proto-Indo-European, with further exploration of disputed points; it has also been updated to include new developments in the field, particularly in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European verb and nominal inflection. The author also reconsiders some of his original approaches to specific linguistic changes and their relative chronology based on his recent research. This new edition of the first volume in A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, the history of English, and historical linguistics more generally. The second volume, The Development of Old English by Don Ringe and Ann Taylor, was published by OUP in 2014 (paperback 2016)