Re: [tied] Re: Lexicon of Proto-Indo-European morphological roots

On 2007-03-30 19:20, cbmibm wrote:

> Which PIE morphological treatise is most ever comprehensive from these
> four ones listed below:
>
> James P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams - "The Oxford Introduction to Proto-
> Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World"
>
> Robert S. P. Beekes - "Comparative Indo-European Linguistics"
> (Glottalic School)
>
> Michael Meier-Brügger "Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft"
>
> Karl Brugmann, Berthold Delbrück - "Grundriß der vergleichenden
> Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen"

The _Grundriß_ has the most detailed description but is very much out of
date (for one thing, the Anatolian and Tocharian branches had not yet
been incorporated, and the reconstruction is -- well -- Brugmannian
:-)). Meier-Brügger's book is worth having but gives only a bird's-eye
view of PIE morphology. There's a pretty long chapter on PIE in Don
Ringe's _From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic_ (OUP, 2006); this
particular chapter is available online as a PDF:

http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-928413-X.pdf

Just a little idiosyncratic, but then what isn't. Inflectional
morphology covered rather nicely.

Piotr