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- Title
'Narten formations' versus 'Narten roots'.
- Authors
Melchert, H. Craig
- Abstract
Since the existence of a PIE 'acrostatic' present formation with descriptive *ḗ/é ablaut was first established by Narten (1968), there has been an ongoing debate regarding the status of this type of inflection in the overall PIE morphological system. Is it a lexically determined feature, by which certain roots consistently (at least typically) display ablaut one degree higher than 'standard' roots in a given morphological category? Or do 'Narten presents' represent merely another means of deriving present (imperfective) stems (originally with a specific Aktionsart), alongside well-known suffixes like *-sḱe/o-? I will present further evidence for the latter viewpoint, thus supporting the independent conclusions in Kümmel 1998.
- Subjects
MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); PHONEMICS; LARYNGEALS (Phonetics); PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 2014, Vol 119, Issue 1, p251
- ISSN
0019-7262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/if-2014-0013