Lehmann Winfred P. Proto-Indo-European Phonology

Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1952 — 144 pp.Marked advances in the study of Indo-European phonology have resulted when new data were discovered and linguistic methodology refined. The initial investigations in IE studies at the beginning of the nineteenth century were due to the discovery of new materials, chiefly Sanskrit; the great series of improvements after 1870 to the application of more rigorous techniques of analysis. In the past twenty-five years further refinements in method have been achieved, chiefly in structural linguistics. Moreover, new data have been provided by Hittite, and by reexamination of phonological phenomena which have hitherto been disregarded or left unexplained. Yet there have been few comprehensive attempts to revise our description of IE phonology. In this monograph I suggest a reformulation of PIE phonology based on an examination of such new data according to the principles of structural linguistics. [.]