Open AccessOn the Indo-European ablative
Author(s) -
Kenneth Shields
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1987.v55.i1.636
Subject(s) - ablative case , linguistics , history , literature , philosophy , medicine , art , radiology , radiation therapy
In this brief paper, it is proposed that the dental element traditionally reconstructed in the ablative singular function of Indo-European o-stems derives ultimately from a deictic particle in *-dh, which developed unaspirated sandhi variants that became subject to generalization in the early dialectal period. Central to this conclusion is the existence of the Greek adverbial suffix -then