Full Description
Karl Brugmann originally intended to include a volume on syntax in his comparative grammar of Indo-European, but as that ambitious project expanded, he and his publisher enlisted Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) to take on the treatment of syntax. Delbrück's three volumes on inflection and phrase and sentence structure appeared between 1893 and 1900 and remain the fullest treatment of Indo-European syntax to this day. In this final volume, Delbrück again explains that he has not treated the full range of Indo-European languages, nor tried to explain how the attested forms and usages arose. Even so, Delbrück marshalls an impressive range of material as he discusses a comprehensive range of structures from apposition and simple questions to complex sentences involving co-ordination and subordination. The volume ends with thorough indexes of words (100 pages), subjects, literary references, and authors to all three volumes on syntax.
Contents
35. Disposition der Syntax; 36. Subjekt und Prädikat; 37. Die subjektlosen Sätze; 38. Stellung und Stazbetonung der Wörter; 39. Die Ellipse; 40. Gruppen im Satze; 41. Kongruenz; 42. Vermischung zweier Konstruktionen; 43. Fragesätze; 44. Abhängige Sätze mit der Prohibitivnegation; 45. Die Relativsätze im Arischen und Griechischen; 46. Die germanischen Relativsätze; 47. Das Relativum aus dem Interrogativstamm; 48. Das Satzgefüge; Indices.
