S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European : A Diachronic Study in Word Formation PDF
by Torsten Meissner
Part of the Oxford Classical Monographs series
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 arestudied 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 characteristicsin question.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
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- ISBN:9780191535598
