Re: [tied] Reference

... wrote:

>There's a radical difference between a documented language and a
>reconstructed one: in the latter case _nothing_ is directly documented and
>_everything_ is hypothetical, so you have to know something about the
>technical side of reconstruction methods if you want to be able to judge
>for yourself whether a given piece of reconstruction is valid in the first
>place, whether the meaning proposed for a given form is justified, etc. On
>the other hand, once you master the methods, you don't really need A
>Beginner's Guide to PIE Grammar; you can write one yourself :-) . All
>right, I know what you mean, but I haven't seen any up-to-date handbook
>like that. It's standard practice at least to explain the whys and
>wherefores of comparative method first.

Well, what I meant is not that I mind long explanations of whys, but I can't
find any works that are not extremely specialised in nature, ie one specific
verb paradigm or the development of a certain pronoun, or the dropping of
the separate dual number in some IE languages.

Rather, what I am looking for is an explanation of the whole thing, or at
least something less specific, such as something about the IE verb in
general, or about IE noun declensions, and not focusing on one specific
language (ie, many will focus on how Greek has descended from it, etc)

>http://flaez.ch/pok/index.html
>
>This index to the online version of Pokorny's dictionary allows you to
>search it according to forms found in a given language (if you can work out
>the German abbreviations of language names). Not quite what you have
>ordered, but I hope it may help a little.
>
>Piotr

I didn't even know that such a page existed, it isn't in the Database, nor
is it in DMOZ. Is there some superior link collection where I may find such
things as this that aren't to be found elsewhere? Or is this just a
relatively new site?

auMark

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