Topics in Indo-European personal pronouns

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" Topics in Indo-European personal pronouns "
J. T. Katz C. Watkins

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1113155
Doc. No	:	TLpq304433162
Main Entry	:	C. Watkins
	:	J. T. Katz
Title & Author	:	Topics in Indo-European personal pronouns\ J. T. KatzC. Watkins
College	:	Harvard University
Date	:	1998
student score	:	1998
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	297
Abstract	:	The reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European system of personal pronouns is highly controversial. This dissertation puts forth a scenario that has internal coherence on the level of the proto-language and explains the whole range of attested forms in the individual branches. It is principally concerned with the tonic oblique plural and dual pronouns, which I reconstruct as 1pl. usd\rm n\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\circ}}}}\!susd-me, 2pl. us-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde and 1du. *usd\rm n\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\circ}}}}\!h\sb3usd-me, 2du. uh3-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde and whose development in Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, Tocharian, Armenian, Greek, and Indo-Iranian I trace in detail. My major conclusions are that the second-person plural pronoun is us-usd\rm u\!\!\!{\sb{\sb{\sb{\sb\\enspace}}}}\!usde (and not us-me vel sim.), that aphaeresis has obscured many otherwise straightforward derivations, and that the dative and instrumental cases play an important role in the creation of pronominal paradigms.
Subject	:	Ancient languages
	:	Ancient languages
	:	Classical studies
	:	Language, literature and linguistics
	:	Linguistics
	:	Linguistics