The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.
Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanis…
by Brogyanyi, Bela, Untermann, Jürgen, Freiburger Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg)
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Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, - es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten …
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposit…
Grammatical change in Indo-European languages: papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European…
by Bubeník, Vít, Hewson, John, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montréal, Rose, Sarah R., Workshop on Indo-European Linguistics, Montreal)
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