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Contents Abbreviations, Conventions, and Texts Used ix Prologue: The Study of a Suffix 1 Chapter 1.The History 6 1.1First words; 1.2Research in modern times: the early years; 1.3The Neogrammarian turning point; 1.4A forgotten master; 1.5Ex oriente lux? Calands Law and the sstems; 1.6A long shadow: The discussion of Calands Law; 1.7Dont get involved: McKenzie and the sstems; 1.8The 1930s or gigantes erant super terram in diebus illis; 1.9Work on Latin and Sanskrit; 1.10The 1980s; 1.11Inflection and word formation; 1.12Recent work on sstems; 1.13Word formation in generative grammar; 1.14Conclusion Chapter 2.The Neuter Sstem Nouns 45 2.1Introduction: The neuter sstem nouns as an inherited category; 2.2The derivational bases of neuter sstem nouns in ProtoIndoEuropean and Greek; 2.3History and prehistory: The inflectional paradigm of neuter sstem nouns; 2.4Reversing the cycle: the secondary derivation of neuter sstem nouns; 2.5Interchange between ostems and sstems; 2.6The semantics of deadjectival sstem nouns; 2.7.Deverbative neuter sstem nouns: semantics and competing suffixes; 2.8.Notes on neuter nouns in \alpha \varsigma Chapter 3.The Animate Sstem Nouns 129 3.1The animate sstem nouns in Greek: an overview; 3.2 The attested forms; 3.3Observations on the nouns in \omega \varsigma and their history in Greek; 3.4Animate sstem nouns: the IndoEuropean and ProtoGreek background Chapter 4.The Sstem Adjectives 160 4.1Introduction; 4.2The sstem adjectives as an inherited category; 4.3Scope of the examination; 4.4Types of compounds attested; 4.5Compounds from sstem nouns in Greek and nominal sstem compounds: bases and historical development; 4.6Adjectives in \eta \varsigma directly derived from adjectives in \upsilon \varsigma?; 4.7Adjectives in \eta \varsigma derived from verbs; 4.8Early forms: the onomastic and Mycenaean evidence; 4.9The accentuation and root gradation of sstem compounds; 4.10Two special formations; 4.11Simple sstem adjectives; 4.12Competing formations: \eta \varsigma and \tau \omicron 4.13Compound adjectives in \eta \varsigma and compound verbs in \acepsilon \omega Epilogue: Combining the Threads 216 References 227 Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Greek language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Proto-Indo-European language.
Proto-Indo-European language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Greek.
Greek language -- Word formation.
Proto-Indo-European language -- Word formation.
Greek language -- Noun.
Proto-Indo-European language -- Noun.
Greek language -- Adjective.
Proto-Indo-European language -- Adjective.