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S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European: A Diachronic Study in Word Formation

by: Meissner, T.

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Category: Lexicon / Dictionary / Grammar
Code: 7678
ISBN-13: 9780199280087 / 978-0-19-928008-7
ISBN-10: 0199280088 / 0-19-928008-8
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 264
Book Condition: New

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 are studied 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 characteristics in question.

 
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S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European: A Diachronic Study in Word Formation

by: Meissner, T.

  • ISBN-13: 9780199280087 / 978-0-19-928008-7
  • ISBN-03: 0199280088 / 0-19-928008-8
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock