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

Piotr Gasiorowski escreveu:

>
> On 2007-03-30 19:20, cbmibm wrote:
> > Which PIE morphological treatise is most ever comprehensive from these
> > four ones listed below:
> >

(...)

>
> 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

Hi!

That chapter is precious, Piotr! Thanks for pointing it, I guess I
know now what will be my next book to be read ; ).

Just one question... I never 'heard' about the allative case to PIE
before. Is it really safe to be reconstructed? It doesn't seem to be
mainstream, at least...

Edgard.