Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results, and Problems : Section Papers from the XVI International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, 11th-15th August, 2003Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, Thomas Olander This volume contains selected papers from a symposium on "Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results and Problems," which formed a subsection of the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held at the University of Copenhagen. Internal reconstruction is what the historical linguist resorts to when the possibilities of more traditional comparative reconstruction have been exhausted. This is certainly the case at the level of the protolanguage. When Proto-Indo-European has been reconstructed on the basis of a painstaking comparative analysis of the entire data field drawing on the full range of extant IE languages, there are, quite often, questions still left unanswered. Comparable methods can be applied to later stages of the language where the immediate prehistory is not accessible or corroboration is wanted. Today, internal reconstruction is routinely applied at all levels of historical linguistic analysis as one of the tools that open up the linguistic |
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M Bauer | 17 |
Vit Bubenik | 33 |
Gerd Carling | 49 |
Paul S Cohen | 65 |
Sabine Häusler | 73 |
John Hewson | 85 |
Eugen Hill | 93 |
Adam Hyllested | 111 |
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ablative ablaut accent active adjectives adverbial analysis aorist appears attested basic basis become causative ćis comparative connected constructions corresponding derived diČerent distinction ending evidence example existence explained expressing fact find first formation function further Genitive given Greek Historische Sprachforschung Hittite Indic Indo-European Indogermanischen inflected initial Inj.-Ind internal reconstruction intransitive Konj languages laryngeal Late Latin linguistic Lith LIV2 locative marked meaning middle morphological nasal nominal nouns original paradigm particle pattern perfect plural position possessive possible predicative preposition present preterit problem Proto-Indo-European Rasmussen reconstruction redupl referred regular result root secondary seen semantic similar stage stem structure subjunctive suďx suffix suggest Table thematic tion tive Tocharian transitive Uralic uridg variants verbal verbs vocalism vowel zero grade