Full Description
This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete - thorough - exhaustive.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. Abbreviations and acronyms; sigla; 4. Introduction; 5. Aitken's law; 6. Bartholomae's law; 7. Brugmann's law; 8. Caland's law; 9. Dolobko's law; 10. Dybo's law; 11. Ebeling's law; 12. Endzelin's law; 13. Fortunatov's law I; 14. Grassmann's law; 15. Grimm's law; 16. Hartmann's law; 17. Hirt's law I; 18. Hirt's law; 19. Hjemslev's law; 20. Holtzmann's law; 21. Illic-Svityc's law; 22. Lachmann's law; 23. Leskien's law; 24. Meillet's law; 25. Nieminen's law; 26. Notker's law; 27. Osthoff's law; 28. Palatals, the law of the; 29. Pedersen's law; 30. Pedersen's law; 31. Saussure's law; 32. Saxmatov's law; 33. Siebs' law; 34. Sievers' law I; 35. Sievers' law II; 36. Stang's law; 37. Streitberg's law; 38. Thurneysen's law; 39. Thurneysen and Havet, the law of; 40. Van Wijk's law; 41. Vendryes' law; 42. Wackernagel's law I; 43. Wheeler's law; 44. Winter's law; 45. Appendix I: section A (minor laws); 46. Appendix I: section B (major tendencies); 47. Appendix II: the phonetic 'new look' of Indo-European consonants; 48. Appendix III: general issues of Balto-Slavic accentology; 49. Appendix IV: Dahl's law of Bantu; 50. Appendix V: Latin verbs in - io; 51. Index of authorities