S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European : a Diachronic Study in Word Formation.
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 ch...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 prehistor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191535598 0191535591 9780191707100 0191707104 9780199280087 0199280088 |