Fulk R.D. The Origins of Indo-European Quantitative Ablaut

Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1986. — X, 237 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 49).Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Nature and Origin of Proto-Indo-European Syllabic Consonants: Introduction. The Sonantentheorie and its opponents. Controversy over antevocalic syllabic resonants. Sievers’ law and PIE antevocalic syllabic liquids and nasals. Syllabic laryngeals. Theories of PIE reduced vowels. Proposed counterevidence to the Sonantentheorie. Borgstrøm’s model of Proto-Indo-European syncope. Syncope in Old Irish. A theory of syncope in Pre-Indo-European. Simple Athematic Declension: Introduction. Proto-Indo-European athematic case endings. The root-stems. The i-stems and u-stems. The locative singular. Complex Declensional Stems: Simple and complex stems. Principles of accentuation in Pre-Indo-European. The n-stems: Stems in *-en-. Stems in *-men- and *-wen. The r-stems: The r-stem kinship terms. Deverbatives in *-ter-. Miscellanea. The accusative plural of r-stems. Thematic declension and ī- and ū-stems. The s-stems and Caland’s law. Conjugation: The Proto-Indo-European conjugational systems. Active inflections of the present and aorist systems. The aorist system: Root-aorists and thematic aorists. Aorist stems and present stems. The sigmatic aorist. The reduplieated aorist. The present system: Nasal presents and the origin of the differentiatian of athematic present types. The thematic presents. The present and aorist systems: a synthesis. Injunctive and optative forms, and the accent shift. Summary and Perspectives: Summary. The structure of Pre-Indo-European and linguistic typology. Works Cited.