商品簡介
The 18 papers, two in German, are from a session at the August 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, its 16th sitting, in Copenhagen. They demonstrate what can be learned about various members of the Indo-European language group by looking at elements within that particular language at different times, particularly by positing a single earlier single form from variant later forms. The topics include the expression of spatio-temporal locations in late Proto-Indo-European, verbal categorization and the coding of valency in Tocharian, internal reconstruction versus external comparison in Indo-Uralic laryngeals, the aspect-tense system and quantitative ablaut, how many noun suffices Proto-Indo-European had, and new Latin evidence for the Indo-European long-vowel preterit. No index is provided. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Thomas Olander is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Jens Elmegard Rasmussen is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.
