Overview

The articles in the book discuss the perspectives as well as the problems related to the method of internal reconstruction. It thus offers a rich overview of one of the most important fields in historical linguistics today. The authors, renowned scholars in the field, are united in the ambition to shed light on the possibility to uncover the older stages of the history of a language through algebraic analysis and without the comparison to other languages. The collection of articles shows the strength of this technique concerning a range of classical problem fields within each Indo-European language and language group (Greek, Latin, Germanic, Old Irish, Tokharian), and also in the analysis of the Indo-European proto-language. Among other things the articles discuss the possibility of observing similarities with other language families.

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Author:   Jens Elmegard Rasmussen ,  Thomas Olander
Publisher:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.50cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9788763507851

ISBN 10:   8763507854
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   28 February 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   German

Table of Contents

The Old Indic cvi construction, the Caland system, & the PIE adjective; Residues as an aid in Internal Reconstruction; On the expression of spatio-temporal locations in Late Proto-Indo-European; Reconsidering the system: verbal categorisation and the coding of valency in Tocharian; On the etymology of Latin optumus / optimus and the reflex of PIE *H2O; Genitive and adjective -- primary parts of the Proto-Indo-European language system?; Tmesis and anastrophe: the beginnings of configuration in Indo-European languages; Zur Rekonstruktion des urindogermanischen Konjunktivs zu athematischen Verbalstdmmen (vorldufige Mitteilung); Internal reconstruction vs. external comparison: the case of the Indo-Uralic laryngeals; *-bhi, *-bhis, *-ois: following the trail of the PIE instrumental plural; The Indo-European aspect-tense system and quantitative ablaut; The range of Tocharian a-umlaut; On the historical morphology of the Old Irish verb teit ""goes""; How many noun suffixes did Proto-Indo-European have?; The Indo-European long-vowel preterite: new Latin evidence; Die semantische Rekonstruktion von Wortbildungssystemen (am Beispiel von Verbalabstrakta im Germanischen); Proto-Indo-European ablaut and root inflection: an internal reconstruction and inner-PIE morphological analysis; Internal reconstruction applied to Indo-European: where do we stand?

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Jens Elmegard Rasmussen, D.Phil, is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

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