On a Case of Suppletive Indo-European Suffixes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11112697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurice Bloomfield (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1925 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Publication date | 1925-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/409366 |
| OpenAlex | W2324153666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The older Indo-European languages have preserved a considerable number of adjectives in oxytone ú of the type Ved. prthús, Avest. , Gr. πλατus ‘broad’; or Ved. , Goth, þaúrsus; OHG. durri ‘dry.‘ For the most part they express very primary adjectival ideas, to a large extent qualities inherent in concrete objects, showing that they were formed at a very early time. They are generally made from the reduced grade of the root, due to their oxytone accent, but morfological and lexical (semantic) influences have tended occasionally, though not very often, to efface the inter-play between oxytonesis and reduced root-form (Vedic = Gr. , etc.). Adjective function and the position of the accent preserve their distinctive class character to an uncommon degree
Indo-European languages · Linguistics · Ancient Near East History · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |