Jasanoff Jay H. Stative and middle in Indo-European

Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1978. — 142 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 23). — ISBN: 9783851245400.This book is a study of three problematic verbal categories found in the Indo-European dialects, all of which contain in whole or in part verbs possessing stative meanings: the class III and IV presents of Tocharian, the Germanic weak class III, and the Balto-Slavic stative presents in *-ī-. This is preceded by an introductory chapter reviewing the IE stative formations (pp. 13-23) and a short concluding chapter on the role of IE *-ē-.