Puhvel Jaan. Laryngeals and the Indo-European verb

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960. — viii, 79 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics, Vol. 21).The heart of the book is a set of three essays on problems of lndo-European verb morphology which the author believes can be illuminated by using the insights and techniques of laryngeal theory: the first consists of two chapters on the nasal presents, 'Materials of the nasal infix presents' (14-30) and 'Theory of the nasal infix presents' (31-40); the second treats 'The desiderative' (41-52); and the third, 'Long-vowel stem morphemes' (53-61), discusses the origin of the Indo-European stative formations, Italo-Celtic and Balto-Slavic optatives and preterits in -a-, and the Indo-European athematic optative. To these essays is prefixed a list of publications dealing with Indo-European laryngeals, arranged by year and author, and reaching from 1879 to 1959 (1-13).