Cyril Brosch
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 130, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 51-62
https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.13.003.1134The article gives an outline of the inflectional peculiarities of Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages, comparing it with unrelated languages, which show hardly any parallels to its pronominal inflection. The latter, constituting a functionally unmotivated divergence from the nominal paradigms, is presented as a probably recent development, which on the other side later leads to a levelling of nominal and pronominal endings in many Indo-European languages, although in some of them inflectional differences may persist until the present day. It is argued that the fusional morphosyntax of Indo- European faciliates linguistic changes of that kind.
Cyril Brosch
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 35-41
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.14.001.1644The paper discusses the Hittite words sūwasali- (a functionary), sapāsalli- ‘scout’ and the eleven words containing the individualizing suffix -sepa-. While sūwasali- is tentatively connected with the PIE root *seh1/3- ‘to be/become full’ (as “filler”), sapāsalli- and -sepa- could be Luwian resp. Hittite instantiations of the root *seh1p- ‘to perceive’, the latter showing a transitionfrom an action noun ‘perception’ to a result noun ‘occurrence’, which is later bleached semantically. Details of the word formation of the concerning forms are discussed, too.
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