Month: May, 2007

Modern Indo-European Grammar, 2nd Ed., Revs. 2.11 to 2.16

6 May, 2007 (10:40) | Indo-European Grammar | No comments

In these minor revisions,
a. Non-relevant notes are now footnotes, to facilitate the reading of the main sections.
b. Footnotes are left for the end of the section.
c. More internal hyperlinks are added, to facilitate a quick vocabulary reference.
Still to improve are styles (especially the footnotes) and bookmarks.
For more on this, see Modern Indo-European Grammar v.2.x.
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Proto-Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (by J.Pokorny) v. 1.01

1 May, 2007 (09:22) | Indo-European dictionary | No comments

It includes minor revisions of Version 1.0, including

Change from original .doc document into Open Document .odt (and consequently a drastic decrease in file size
Page numbers are also reformed, as Microsoft Word appear to crash with more than 377 pages (?)
The PDF is made with Open Office (v.2.2) and OpenSuSe, as Windows doesn’t seem to deal [...]

Modern Indo-European Grammar, 2nd Ed., Rev. 2.11

1 May, 2007 (09:09) | Indo-European Grammar | No comments

In this minor revision, all special Latin endings in -tas, -tatis, “-ty” in English, are modified and made “more Indo-European”, so to speak, and left as simply -ta, i.e., MIE Third or a-Declension.
Thus, for example, Uniuersitas, Uniuersitatis, “University”, is changed from older MIE Oiniwersitats (i.e. root in -t) to simply MIE Oiniwersita.
For more on this, [...]