S-Stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European: A Diachronic Study in Word Formation

by Torsten Meissner

This book deals with one aspect of Greek and Proto-Indo-European nominal morphology, the formation, inflection and semantics of s-stem nouns and adjectives. It uncovers the mechanisms of their creation and shows their limitation. The established view that the nouns are an unproductive category is challenged; at the same time, the expanding and partly changing nature of the basis governing the creation of the adjectives is explained. Morphology and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199280088
• ISBN13: 9780199280087
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"