This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the
Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and …

Il presente lavoro è dedicato a uno studio storico-comparativo delle formazioni causative
sintetiche ricostruibili per l'indoeuropeo, suddivisibili in tre tipi: temi ad affisso nasale, temi …

The suffix*-nt-is taken for granted as a Caland suffix in two of the most recent and important
works on the Caland system, those by Nussbaum (1976) and Rau (2009), but other authors …

The present paper demonstrates the relevance of the semantic approach to transitivity
(going back to Hopper and Thompson 1980) for the analysis of Vedic causative verbs. I will …

The heteroclitic nominals of Indo-European retain one of the oldest types of inflection in the
family, one with suffix-final-r-in certain cases and-n-in others. This alternation finds no …

1. Einführung 1982 hat Pinault einen kurzen Aufsatz geschrieben zu einer bis dahin
großenteils „unberücksichtigten indogermanischen Lautregel “, nämlich dem …

Abstract According to Christol (1996: 809ff.), some Latin words in-ss-(allegedly with
“expressive gemination”) could receive a principled explanation as systematic exceptions to …

In a first phase (usually called Proto-Indo-European in English or Früh-Indogermanisch in
German) the derivational system is deradical and athematic. The selection of diathesis takes …

This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance
our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can …

Already the earliest assumptions concerning syntactic language change dealt with the
emergence of ergative patterns. 2 One of the first authors who turned to the problem of what …