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S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European: A Diachronic Study in Word Formation

By Torsten Meissner

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
0199280088, 9780199280087, 9781435623873
LCC
PA251 .M38 2005
Open Library ID
OL22726208M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1815593 bytes)
Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
277\277
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46
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Description

This book deals with one aspect of Greek and Proto-Indo-European nominal morphology, the formation, inflection and semantics of s-stem nouns and adjectives. It uncovers the mechanisms of their creation and shows their limitation. The established view that the nouns are an unproductive category is challenged; at the same time, the expanding and partly changing nature of the basis governing the creation of the adjectives is explained. Morphology and semantics are studied in tandem, and a large chronological span of the Greek language is covered. The historical side is then extended into prehistory, and in particular the Greek evidence is tested against recent theories on Proto-Indo-European ablaut, leading to a reassessment of the morphonological characteristics in question.

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