"Q" Exam Readings: Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics Concentration

1.  From: Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture: an Introduction2:
Greek: Ch. 12: 248–73
Italic: Ch. 13: 274–308

2.  From: Weiss, Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin2:
PIE Consonants (C) Ch. 4 II A 1-3, II A 4 c-e, II B, II C    36-37, 39-41, 42
PIE Vowels (V) Ch. 4 III    43-47
PIE Word Structure, Root Structure, “Ablaut” Ch. 5    48-52
PIE and Latin “Laryngeals” (H) Ch. 6 I    53-55
Latin Segments     71-75
PIE > Latin Stops (T)  Ch. 9 I-VI, Ch. 10 IV    80-88, 92-93
PIE > Latin Continuants Ch. 10 I-III    89-92
PIE > Latin Vowels (V), Diphthongs (VI), Syllabic Sonorant Cs (R̥) Ch. 11 I-VII    103-114
Latin and Italic Stress    118-120
Latin “Vowel Weakening”    126-131
Latin V̅ Changes Other Than “Weakenings” Ch. 15 I-II    148-155
Latin Rhotacism Ch. 16 II    161-163
PIE Nominals: Case, Number, Gender    210-215
PIE Nominal Endings    215-221, 222-229
Latin Nominal System    230-232
Thematic (“Second Declension”) Stems    232
Thematic Stem Plus Ending Combinations: PIE and Latin    237-243
PIE h₂-Stems > Latin ā-Stems (“First Declension”)    245
h₂-Stem Plus Ending Combinations; Latin ā-Stem Paradigm    246
Athematic Accent/Ablaut Patterns in Inflection     276-279
Latin “Third Declension” (Obstruent- and i-Stems): Introduction    255
Latin Obstruent-Stem Paradigms     255-259
PIE i-Stem Plus Ending Combinations    259
Latin i-Stem Paradigms    260, 261-265
PIE u-Stem Plus Ending Combinations    268
Latin u-Stems     268-269, 269-272
The PIE Verb Ch. 35    400-21
The Latin Verb Ch. 36-39    422-475

Note: a good deal of the PIE morphological treatment overlaps with the Greek Outline.

3.  From: Weiss, Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek (pdf supplied):

Ch. 6: 4-6               Laryngeals in Greek
Ch. 7: 1-8               Sounds of Greek (synchronic)
Ch. 8: 1-9, 18-19    Development of PIE stops in Greek
Ch. 9: 1-5               Development of PIE continuants (s and sonorant consonants) in Greek
Ch. 10: 1-6             V̅, VI, V̅I, R̥ developments in Greek.  Prothetic Vs.
Ch. 11:
1-2                         Osthoff’s Law.
2-7                         The three compensatory lengthenings.
Ch. 12:
1-6                         PIE and Greek prosody.
6-9                         Special laryngeal developments.
Ch. 13:
1-4                         Pre-Greek and Greek contractions of V+V.
4-5                         Other V+V phenomena
5-6                         Special VI treatments
6-7                         Attic “reversion”
7-9                         History of the Attic V̅ system
Ch. 14: 1-7            C voicing assimilation; more on s developments; the development of TL and TN sequences; Grassmann’s Law; assibilation of t; treatments of Ci̯, Li̯,  Ni̯, si̯; treatment of Tu̯ and su̯; minor assimilations and dissimilations.
Ch 15: 1-11           Nominal categories; PIE sg. case endings
Ch 16: 1-9             PIE pl. and du. case endings
Ch. 17:
1-7                        PIE and Greek o-stems (“thematics”)
8-12                      PIE *-eh₂- stems
12-14                    Greek ā-stems
14-17                    PIE *-ih₂/-i̯eh₂- stems and Greek -i̯ā̆-stems
17-27                    PIE and Greek T- and R-stems
28-33                    PIE and Greek adjectives
Ch. 22: 1-10          PIE and Greek verbal stems: aorist and present
Ch. 23:
1-7                        PIE and Greek verbal stems: perfect; Greek future
8-14                      PIE and Greek moods
Ch. 24: 1-5           PIE and Greek participles, verbal adjectives, infinitives
Ch. 25: 1-17         PIE verbal semantics; morphology of the PIE verb system; personal endings

Note: a good deal of the PIE morphological treatment overlaps with the Latin Outline.

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