ISBN10: 019928198X, ISBN13: 9780199281985, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. "Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family." James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement |d 05/03/2004This book reconciles what is known of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system with the evidence of Hittite and theother early Anatolian languages. The decipherment of Hittite in 1917 and the recognition that it was an Indo-European language had dramatic consequences for conceptions of the Indo-European parentlanguage. For most of the twentieth century, attention focused on the peculiarities of Hittite phonology, especially the consonant h and its implications for the evolving laryngeal theory. Yet the morphological 'disconnects' between Hittite and the other early languages are more profound than the phonological differences. The Hittite verbal system lacks most of the familiar tense-aspect categories of Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. It also presents the novelty of the hi-conjugation, a purely formalconjugation class to which nearly half of all Hittite verbs belong. Repeated attempts to explain the hi-conjugation on the basis of the classical model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system havefailed. The question is ...
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Paperback / softback. New. Puts forward a revolutionary model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system which will have an impact on the study of the Indo-European language family and marks a significant advance in the understanding of its history. This book reconciles what is known of this verbal system with the evidence of Hittite and the other early Anatolian languages. ISBN 019928198x 9780199281985 [GB]

ISBN10: 019928198X, ISBN13: 9780199281985, [publisher: Oxford University Press OUP] Softcover pp. 286
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 019928198X, ISBN13: 9780199281985, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. "Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family." James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement |d 05/03/2004This book reconciles what is known of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system with the evidence of Hittite and theother early Anatolian languages. The decipherment of Hittite in 1917 and the recognition that it was an Indo-European language had dramatic consequences for conceptions of the Indo-European parentlanguage. For most of the twentieth century, attention focused on the peculiarities of Hittite phonology, especially the consonant h and its implications for the evolving laryngeal theory. Yet the morphological 'disconnects' between Hittite and the other early languages are more profound than the phonological differences. The Hittite verbal system lacks most of the familiar tense-aspect categories of Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. It also presents the novelty of the hi-conjugation, a purely formalconjugation class to which nearly half of all Hittite verbs belong. Repeated attempts to explain the hi-conjugation on the basis of the classical model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system havefailed. The question is ...
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Oxford University Press, Date: 2005-05-26. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 019928198X 9780199281985 [US]