Open AccessLos heteróclitos indoeuropeos en <i>-i/n-</i>: propuesta de reclasificación
Author(s) -
Juan Antonio Álvarez Pedrosa
Publication year - 1991
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.1991.v59.i2.515
Subject(s) - etymology , alternation (linguistics) , opposition (politics) , noun , linguistics , philosophy , humanities , theology , law , political science , politics
We call -i/n- Heteroclits five nouns which present an alternation in this way: an i-stem of N.A.sg. (or masculine gender) is opposed to an n-stem of oblique cases (or feminine gender). In four of them this system is used for the opposition of case: this formation appears only in O.I.: áks̟i, etc. In the remaining nouns, the -i/n- alternance serves for the opposition of gender: O.L. m. páti- / f. pátnī-, and related forms. The author reviews the etymology of all these nouns: there are phonetic reasons to suppose that the alternation -i/n- is apparent; in all cases they are laryngeal stems, as it is justified by comparative material. In short, this inflexional type must be reduced to the heteroclitic -ø/n- stem