Noun Formation in Indo-European
While the subject of nominal word formation has been the subject of several monographs in recent years, these works typically concentrate on either a specific language or language branch (e.g. Elisabeth Rieken: Untersuchungen zur nominalen Stammbildung im Hethitischen, 1999, or Antje Casaretto: Nominale Stammbildung der gotischen Sprache, 2004) or a specific suffix or group of suffixes (e.g. Karin Stüber: Die primären s-Stämme des Indogermanischen, 2002), and since Karl Brugmann’s classic study from 1906 (Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, Bd. II.1), no complete account of the Indo-European inventory of noun suffixes has appeared.
The present project intends to fill this gap with a survey of all major derivational types and their most important continuations into the individual branches of the Indo-European family. The work will include observations concerning the internal phonetic/phonological and functional relation between groups of internally related suffixes, and discussions of such much-debated subjects as “the Caland complex” and “internal derivation”.
Scholar in charge
Calendar
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4 Dec. 2020, 16:01-18:00
Festlig Faglig Fredag: Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn, (Old) Balkanic and beyond: Semitoid traits in PIE
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13 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2020
Conference: Form and Meaning
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6 Nov. 2020, 16:01-18:00
Festlig Faglig Fredag: Aigars Kalniņš, Lettisk komparativ dialektologi og hvad dialektkontinua kan lære os om sprogslægtskab