A grammar of modern Indo-EuropeanA Grammar of Modern Indo-European is a complete reference guide to a living Indo-European language. It contains a comprehensive description of Proto-Indo-European grammar, and offers an analysis of the complexities of the prehistoric language and its reconstruction from its descendant languages. Written in a fresh and accessible style, and illustrated with maps, figures and tables, this book focusses on the real patterns of use of Late Indo-European. The book is well organised and is filled with full, clear explanations of areas of confusion and difficulty. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require.An essential reference source for the student of Indo-European as a learned and living language, this work will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language, and in speaking the direct ancestor of the world's largest language family. |
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ablaut accent adjectives adll Adrados–Bernabé–Mendoza adverbs Anatolian aorist Armenian athematic attested bahuvrihis Balto-Slavic Beekes Celtic Clackson clause clitics common compounds consonant Corded Ware culture declension derived enclitic endings European example feminine forms Fortson genitive Germanic Goth grade Graeco-Aryan Greek Hitt Hittite IE dialects IE languages Indo Indo-European languages Indo-Hittite Indo-Iranian inflection intr Ala Italic Italo-Celtic labiovelars laryngeal Late Indo-European Latin Lehmann lengthened linguistic Lith Meier-Brügger 2003 nominal NOTE nouns NWIE O.Ind O.Ir older original paradigm participles particles phonetic plural present stem probably pronouns Proto-Greek Proto-Indo-European Proto-Slavic reconstructed reduplication root Sanskrit satem sentence Sihler singular Slavic suffix syllable thematic Tocharian tr Ala usually Vedic Vedic Sanskrit velars verb verbal vocative voiced vowel word Yamnaya zero-grade