A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language: Reconstruction of Proto-AlbanianThis book deals with the historical development of the Albanian language from prehistoric times to our days. The main focus of the book is the reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, the analysis of its relations to its ancestor, Indo-European, and its further change leading to Albanian in its present form. The volume contains a detailed description of historical phonetics and morphology of Albanian. The reader will also find important data on the Albanian vocabulary in its historical development. Together with the author's "Albanian Etymological Dictionary," the present book makes a powerful research tool important for Albanologists, Balkanologists and historical linguists. |
Contents
Morphonology and wordformation | 123 |
Morphology | 178 |
Conjugation | 205 |
Vocabulary | 250 |
Phonetic tables | 269 |
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Common terms and phrases
accentual type adjectives affricate anlaut aorist asigmatic aorist athematic attested auslaut Balto-Slavic based on IE based on Lat borrowed ÇABEJ changed clusters consonant continuing IE declension derived from IE dialects diphthongs e-grade Early Proto-Albanian ending following examples forms front vowels gen.-dat gives Alb Goth Hitt Indo-European Indo-European languages intervocalic isoglosses JOKL labial Late Proto-Albanian Latin loanwords Latv Lith loanwords masculine māter MEYER Alb nasal nominative nouns numerous o-stems occlusives OPrus OREL original Osset oxytonic palatalization paradigm participles PEDERSEN phonetic plural prefix present aorist present stems preserved pronouns Proto Proto-Indo-European reconstruction reflected as Alb reflex secondary singular Slav Slavic loanwords sonorants stress suffix tear thematic present Toch Tocharian Tosk triconsonantal umlaut unstressed unvoiced variant velars verbs vocalism words yielded Alb yielded EPA