Table of Contents

1: The problem of the hi-conjugation
2: Morphological preliminaries: the perfect and the middle
3: The h2e-conjugation: root presents
4: The h2e-conjugation: i-presents
5: The h2e-conjugation: other characterized presents
6: h2e-conjugation aorists: part one
7: h2e-conjugation aorists: part two
8: Retrospective
Appendices

About the Author

Jay Jasanoff received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1968 and has spent most of his academic career at Cornell and Harvard, where is he currently Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology and Chair of the Department of Linguistics. His publications include Stative and Middle in Indo-European (1978) and numerous articles on Indo-European linguistics and problems in the history of the individual Indo-European languages.

Reviews

A major event. James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family. James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement