Morphology and Paradigm of Old Germanic t-stems as a Reflection of the Active Structure of the Early Indo-European Language
The Indo-European languages at the early period of their development were characterized by the structure and categories which were quite different from what they are having nowadays. The active structure, the predecessor of the nominative one, determined the morphological, syntactical and semantic aspects of the language. Binary opposition of the active and inactive cases developed into a new opposition which at the moment of the formation of the nominative structure consisted of the subject case (genitive) and the object case (accusative and nominative). Old Germanic t-stems and their Indo-European parallels reflect some features which were peculiar for the active stage in the history of the Indo-European languages.
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Issue: 4, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indo-European and Siberian languages)
Rubric: Indo-European Languages
Pages: 45 — 50
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