Here is a brief description, as provided by the publisher, of the book, about which I asked in my previous message, as well as the TOC of that book.
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This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete — thorough — exhaustive. “... Collinge has provided all students and scholars in the many branches of Indo-European studies with a useful reference tool and deserves our gratitude...” (Journal of English and Germanic Philology)
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Table of contents
Preface vi
Contents vii
Abbreviations and acronyms; sigla ix
Introduction 1
Aitken’s law 3
Bartholomae’s law 7
Brugmann’s law 13
Caland’s law 23
Dolobko’s law 29
Dybo’s law 31
Ebeling’s law 35
Endzelin’s law 37
Fortunatov’s law I 41
Grassmann’s law 47
Grimm’s law 63
Hartmann’s law 77
Hirt’s law I 81
Hirt’s law 85
Hjemslev’s law 89
Holtzmann’s law 93
Illič-Svityč’s law 103
Lachmann’s law 105
Leskien’s law 115
Meillet’s law 117
Nieminen’s law 119
Notker’s law 121
Osthoff’s law 127
Palatals, the law of the 133
Pedersen’s law 143
Pedersen’s law 147
Saussure’s law 149
Šaxmatov’s law 153
Siebs’ law 155
Sievers’ law I 159
Sievers’ law II 175
Stang’s law 179
Streitberg’s law 181
Thurneysen’s law 183
Thurneysen and Havet, the law of 193
Van Wijk’s law 197
Vendryes’ law 199
Wackernagel’s law I 217
Wheeler’s law 221
Winter’s law 225
Appendix I: section A (minor laws) 229
Appendix I: section B (major tendencies) 241
Appendix II: the phonetic ‘new look’ of Indo-European consonants 259
Appendix III: general issues of Balto-Slavic accentology 271
Appendix IV: Dahl’s law of Bantu 279
Appendix V: Latin verbs in — iō 283
Index of authorities 289
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Howey [mailto:
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Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 00:32
To: Cyba List
Subject: book about the sound laws of Indo-European
Hello, all:
Is anyone familiar with the following book title? It purports to list and detail the sound laws of Indo-European (Brugmann's, Grassman's, Sievers', and a whole bunch more that I hadn't heard of before), and I was wondering if it's worthwhile.
Title: The Laws of Indo-European
Author: N.E. Collinge
ISBN: 0 915027 75 5
Did Saussure and Meillet actually publish "laws"? If so, and if everything else listed in the TOC is valid, this may well turn out to be a worthwile acquisition. Any information about this book, or similar ones, would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get a better understanding of Indo-European sound laws in order to understand PIE and the daughter languages better.
Andy Howey