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Topics in Indo-European personal pronouns

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TLpq304433162

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انگلیسی

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Topics in Indo-European personal pronouns

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[Thesis]

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J. T. Katz

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

C. Watkins

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Harvard University

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1998

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297

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Ph.D.

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Harvard University

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1998

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The reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European system of personal pronouns is highly controversial. This dissertation puts forth a scenario that has internal coherence on the level of the proto-language and explains the whole range of attested forms in the individual branches. It is principally concerned with the tonic oblique plural and dual pronouns, which I reconstruct as 1pl. *usd\rm n\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\circ}}}}\!susd-me, 2pl. *us-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde and 1du. **usd\rm n\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\circ}}}}\!h\sb3usd-me, 2du. *uh3-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde and whose development in Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, Tocharian, Armenian, Greek, and Indo-Iranian I trace in detail. My major conclusions are that the second-person plural pronoun is *us-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde (and not *us-me vel sim.), that aphaeresis has obscured many otherwise straightforward derivations, and that the dative and instrumental cases play an important role in the creation of pronominal paradigms.

Ancient languages

Ancient languages

Classical studies

Language, literature and linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics

C. Watkins

J. T. Katz

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