Category: Indo-European Grammar

A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, versions 3.35 & 3.36

17 March, 2008 (11:36) | Indo-European Grammar | No comments

These are the latest changes made to our reference book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European in Version 3.35:
- In page 42, Schleicher’s Fable in Proto-Indo-European, in IE II, IE III (equivalent to the Modern Indo-European version) and other proto-languages: all versions have been corrected, but specially the Proto-Italic one, following some critics about the phonetic [...]

A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, version 3.34

28 January, 2008 (16:23) | Indo-European Grammar | No comments

Our book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is already for sale at Amazon.com (visit Amazon’s book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European).
These are the latest changes made in version 3.34:
- Latin’s Penultimate rule (page 19) is formulated incompletely: the tone falls on the penultimate syllable if this is long, and on the antepenultimate if it [...]

A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, version 3.33

1 January, 2008 (21:27) | Indo-European Grammar | No comments

Due to the need of other, non-European online shops, we had to prepare other printing formats for the Print-on-Demand services that Amazon.com and Lulu.com offered.
Before we printed the whole PDF files again we decided to correct some known mistakes, namely:
- The Personal Pronouns section (version 3.32) - we’ve added the tonic variants.
- The old proto-language [...]

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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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, [...]