Indogermanische Grammatik

The definitive analysis of Indo-European in its time, Hirt's grammar (1921–1937) is a monument of the German philological tradition.

Hermann Alfred Hirt (Author)

9781108006743, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2009

276 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.35 kg

Hermann Alfred Hirt (1865–1936) taught Greek, Latin and early Germanic languages at Leipzig University from 1892 to 1912 before moving to the chair of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at Giessen. Born around the time when Bopp and Schleicher were publishing their ground-breaking work on Indo-European, and a young man when Brugmann published his monumental comparative grammar (all available in this series), Hirt began this seven-volume grammar in the 1920s soon after the exciting discovery of Tocharian and the decipherment of Hittite. The project arose out of his extensive research on the historical phonology of Indo-European vowels, which led him to consider much wider issues. Volume 2 (which appeared first, in 1921) revisits and updates Hirt's earlier work on the vowel system, and emphasises the value of comparative philology as opposed to single-language studies. It includes a full index of words.

Einleitung
Part I. Der Ablaut innerhalb der Silbe: 1. Abstufung ei : i usw.
2. Mannigfaltigkeit des idg. Vokalismus
3. Die langen Vokale
4. Die Dehnstufe
5. Die Langdiphthonge
6. Die Reduktionsstufe (R)
Part II. Der Ablaut mehrerer Silben: 7. Das Problem der zweisilbigen schweren Basen
8. Vollstufe (V) I
9. Vollstufe II
10. Die Schwundstufen der zweisilbigen schweren Basen
11. Zweisilbige leichte Basen
12. Der Ablaut dreisilbiger Worte oder Basen
13. Abtönung und Enklise
14. Die Basen nebeneinander
15. Die Verteilung von Schwund- und Reduktionsstufe
16. Sekundärer Ablaut
17. Übersicht der regelrecht ablautenden Nominal- und Verbaltypen
18. Sonstige Veränderungen des Vokalismus
Register.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]