Hittite and the Indo-European Verb

by Jay H. Jasanoff

Overview

The "disconnects" between Hittite and the other early Indo-European languages have been extensively explored, and scholars have realized that the conventional picture of the parent language must be modified to account for the facts of Hittite. Jay Jasanoff proposes the most thorough and systematic resolution of the problem yet published, putting forth a revolutionary model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199249053
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/11/2003
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jay Jasanoff received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard in 1968. He has spent most of his academic career at Cornell and Harvard, where he is currently Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology and Chair of the Department of Linguistics. His publications include Stative and Middle in Indo-European (1978) and numerous articles on Indo-European linguistics and problems in the history of the individual Indo-European languages.

Table of Contents

1. The problem of the hi-conjugation2. Morphological preliminaries: the perfect and the middle3. The h2e-conjugation: root presents4. The h2e-conjugation: i-presents5. The h2e-conjugation: other characterized presents6. h2e-conjugation aorists: part one7. h2e-conjugation aorists: part two8. RetrospectiveAppendices

Editorial Reviews

"Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that the Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fittred into any model of the dispersal of the language family, in the long run...in Hittite and the Indo-European Verb, we can see how the whole picture fits together. ...a major event"—Times Literary Supplement

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