Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European. Methods, results, and problems

Section Papers from the XVI International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, 11th–15th August 2003. — Edited by Jens Elmegård Rasmussen and Thomas Olander, with the collaboration of Anders Richardt Jørgensen. — University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009. — 268 p. — (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European, vol. 3). — ISBN 978-87-635-0785-1.Contents: Prefatory note. Irene Balles, The Old Indic cvi construction, the Caland system, and the PIE adjective. Brigitte L.M. Bauer, Residues as an aid in Internal Reconstruction. Vit Bubenik, On the expression of spatio-temporal locations in Late Proto-Indo-European. Gerd Carling, Reconsidering the system: verbal categorization and the coding of valency in Tocharian. Paul S. Cohen, On the etymology of Latin optumus / optimus and the reflex of PIE *H₂o-. Sabine Häusler, Genitive and adjective – primary parts of the Proto-Indo-European language-system? John Hewson, Tmesis and anastrophe: the beginnings of configuration in Indo-European languages. Eugen Hill, Zur Rekonstruktion des urindogermanischen Konjunktivs zu athematischen Verbalstammen (vorläufige Mitteilung). Adam Hyllested, Internal reconstruction vs. external comparison: the case of the Indo-Uralic laryngeals. Jay Jasanoff, *-bhi, *-bhis, *-ōis: following the trail of the PIE instrumental plural. Konstantin G. Krasukhin, The Indo-European aspect-tense system and quantitative ablaut. Martin Ioachim Kümmel, The range of Tocharian a-umlaut. Natalia Nikolaeva, On the historical morphology of the Old Irish verb téit “goes”. Birgit Anette Olsen, How many noun suffixes did Proto-Indo-European have? Moss Pike, The Indo-European long-vowel preterite: new Latin evidence. Natalia B. Pimenova, Die semantische Rekonstruktion von Wortbildungssystemen (am Beispiel von Verbalabstrakta im Germanischen). Roland A. Pooth, Proto-Indo-European ablaut and root inflection: an internal reconstruction and inner-PIE morphological analysis. Iens Elmegård Rasmussen, Internal reconstruction applied to Indo-European: Where do we stand?