| he morphology of Proto-Indo-European has traditionally been reconstructed as a composite of all the complexities found in the daughter languages, with a full array of tenses, moods, and aspects. This dissertation re-examines that premise by focusing on one morphological category, the ;It was found that, despite its apparent wide distribution, the ;These findings support the "Space-Time Hypothesis" first proposed by Meid (1975), which characterizes the proto-language as a dynamic, developing entity, one which shows a distinct geographical split between east and west in its later stages. The western languages and Hittite, to the extent that they contain reflexes of the ;A further important conclusion which was reached concerns the connection of the lengthened grade to the... |
