From: Muke Tever
Message: 2141
Date: 2000-04-18
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
>
> What's beyond me and frustrating is why resources that are devoted to
> concisely explaining IE grammar in detail aren't more common if so much is
> known of it. I've never heard tell of any books that overtly and concisely
> go through paradigms like that for "eye" in IE. It would be also handy if
> the proper gender of a root could be listed too to avoid more confusion.
> Instead, books only list *okW- (or a laryngeal-enriched reconstruction)
and
> call it "eye" without going into detail about what gender it is,
> peculiarities of the paradigm, etc.
Hear hear! It's difficult to find information like this.
(IRL my libraries are lacking even the basic IE stuff.[1])
The web is no help either, really, unless I'm looking in all the wrong
places (doubtful).
Can anyone point to a page or perhaps conjure something useful in this
direction to the list?
*Muke!
[1] The local public library's entire section on language (Dewey 400, I
think) spans a walloping two sections of shelf and is mostly taken up with
thick books by people like Safire and thin books by people like Lederer.
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