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Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns

Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns Abstract Compounds in a language have long been viewed as reflections of other syntactic patterns in that language. Some of the suggestions on relationships may now strike us as clumsy, such as those deriving compounds like Greek from imperatives plus objects.1 Other suggestions have been less explicit than we should like, for example Leumann's view of compounds as permutations of longer syntactic sequences; nass-äugig was for him a derived form of a nominal sentence: Auge nass.2 And Jacobi,3 using Brugmann's definition of compound, proposed that Proto-Indo-European [PIE] verbal tatpurushas were “syntactic word complexes of a certain kind, so common in the proto-language that they could be combined into words”. But the procedures by which the complexes were combined were not specified. Recent statements on compounds have been more explicit. In his monograph on English nominalizations Lees stated of nominals that they are “noun-like versions of sentences”.4 In accordance with this position, at least some types of compounds in a language reflect its sentence patterns. If such a position can be proposed for the analysis of contemporary languages, it is also valid for reconstructed languages. In this essay I examine the PIE compounds in relation to the larger syntactic patterns of the language, with the aim of clarifying both patterns: compounds on the one hand but primarily its sentence patterns. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns

Lehmann, W. P.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International , Volume 12 (1): 20 – Jan 1, 1969
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Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns

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Abstract Compounds in a language have long been viewed as reflections of other syntactic patterns in that language. Some of the suggestions on relationships may now strike us as clumsy, such as those deriving compounds like Greek from imperatives plus objects.1 Other suggestions have been less explicit than we should like, for example Leumann's view of compounds as permutations of longer syntactic sequences; nass-äugig was for him a derived form of a nominal sentence: Auge nass.2...
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10.1080/03740463.1969.10415422
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Abstract

Abstract Compounds in a language have long been viewed as reflections of other syntactic patterns in that language. Some of the suggestions on relationships may now strike us as clumsy, such as those deriving compounds like Greek from imperatives plus objects.1 Other suggestions have been less explicit than we should like, for example Leumann's view of compounds as permutations of longer syntactic sequences; nass-äugig was for him a derived form of a nominal sentence: Auge nass.2 And Jacobi,3 using Brugmann's definition of compound, proposed that Proto-Indo-European [PIE] verbal tatpurushas were “syntactic word complexes of a certain kind, so common in the proto-language that they could be combined into words”. But the procedures by which the complexes were combined were not specified. Recent statements on compounds have been more explicit. In his monograph on English nominalizations Lees stated of nominals that they are “noun-like versions of sentences”.4 In accordance with this position, at least some types of compounds in a language reflect its sentence patterns. If such a position can be proposed for the analysis of contemporary languages, it is also valid for reconstructed languages. In this essay I examine the PIE compounds in relation to the larger syntactic patterns of the language, with the aim of clarifying both patterns: compounds on the one hand but primarily its sentence patterns.

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1969

References

  • Nominalkomposition in den altanatolischen Sprachen des 2. Jahrtausends
  • order of words and the use of accent
  • On earlier stages of the Indo-European nominal inflection