Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology
Author | : Thomas Olander |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004270503 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004270507 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages. Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas Olander provides a new look at the Proto-Slavic inflectional system. The systematic, coherent and exhaustive approach laid out in the handbook paves the way for new solutions to long-standing problems of Slavic historical grammar.