Boley Jacqueline. Tmesis and Proto-Indo-European Syntax

Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2004 – (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 116) – 195 S. – ISBN 3-85124-699-3.Table of Contents: Introduction. Note - Abbreviations. Problems of Tmesis: Tmesis in Old Hittite: Motion Place Words. Stative Place Words. Varia. Observations on Tmesis in Homer: The Accusative in Early IE Word Order. The Dative in Homeric Word Order. The Syntax of ἐν in Homer. Comments. Value und Function of Place Words in Homer and PIE: Relations of PWs and Oblique Cases. Relations of the (Initial) PW and the V. Syntax of Initial PW in Homer and PIE: In Homer. In PIE. Place Words in Second Position: Homeric PWs in Second Position. Hittite PWs in Second Position. Summation and Comments. The Hittite Enclitic “Local” Particles: -an. -asta. -apa and -san. Summation and Comments. Intermezzo: The Genesis and Ancestry of Verbs and Nouns in PIE: Derivation of Verbs. Function of the “Verb” in PIE. Verbal and Nominal Endings: Nominative. Verbal Ending -s. Accusative. Verbal Ending -m. Prehistory of IE Nouns and Verbs. Early PIE Syntax: Word Order in Early PIE: Nature and Position of the Verb in PIE. General Observations on PIE Syntax. Modular Syntax in PIE: Position of the Nominative. Modular Syntax - Kernel Structures. Accretions after the Module: Simple Verbs. PW + Verb. Simple Kernel Modules. Movement of Forms inside the Kernel. Summation and Comments. Value of the Initial PW in Modular Syntax: The Module PW Acc. V. The Module PW Nom. V. - Accretions before the Module. Agglomerations of Modules. PW without V. Syntactic evidence of relative status of PW and Nom. Summation and Comments. Discourse Syntax of Early PIE: Local Expressions in Initial Position. PIE Paragraphs as Modular Units: Initial Verb. Initial Verb - Antithetical Syntax. Initial PWs in Paragraph Syntax. Overview and Comments - Deep Structure. Concluding Remarks. Texts Cited.