Re: [tied] Reference

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From: "Mark Williamson" <dehua_andrew_chen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Reference


> 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)

Then this may be what you're looking for: Oswald Szemerényi, _Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics_ (translated from German; Oxford University Press, 1997 [hardback], 1999 [paperback]). The author's take on various IE problems may be somewhat idiosyncratic, but the book reads well and certainly gives you a bird's-eye view of "the whole thing":

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823870-3

> 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?

Several people on this have their own collections. Let me use this opportunity to ask everybody who knows of a good link to IE resources to add it to our Links section (I almost forgot we had such a thing), with a brief description. I'll do so myself as soon as I find the time.

Piotr