Re: Lithuanian similarities to IE (was Re: US House of Reps...)

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Marc Adler wrote:
>> Incidentally, do we have a reconstructed IE grammar, as opposed to just
>> word forms?
>
> Of course! See Szemerenyi, Beekes, now Fortner (which I only glimpsed
> once); or Baldi, Foundations of Latin.

Why recommend Szemerenyi? All his ideas are tremendously out of
date. His view of the proto-language was essentially along the lines
of Greek and Sanskrit, and can't be reconciled well with the new data
provided by Hittite.

Lehmann (_Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics_) and
Gamkrelidze & Ivanov (their magnum opus introductory published by
Mouton de Gruyter) are better choices for the current,
typologically-aware thought on PIE grammar.

Christopher Culver
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