Shields Kenneth, Jr. Indo-European Noun Inflection: A Developmental History

Foreword by William R. Schmalstieg. — University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. — XI, 106 p. — ISBN 0-271-00311-1.Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Reconstruction. Summary. Method: Language Variation and Language. Change. Indo-European Monophthongizations. Analogy. Case and Gender. Note. Nominal Inflection in Early Indo-European: Earliest Indo-European. Indo-European as an Ergative Language. From Ergative to Nominative-Accusative. The Ergative Suffix *-r. Notes. The Enrichment of the Case System[/i]: *-N as a Marker of the Genitive-Ablative. *-N as a Market of the Dative-Instrumental. *-N as a Marker of the Locative. The Origin of the Oblique Case: The Oblique Marker *-s. The Oblique Marker *-i. The Oblique Marker *-T.The Oblique Marker *-bh. The Origin of the Vocative Case. The Origin of the Nominative Singular Animate Ending *-s: Concord in Early Indo-European. The Nominative Singular Animate Suffix *-s. Notes. [b]The Origin of the Non-Singular and the Development of the Feminine Gender: The Non-Singular Markers: The Non-Singular Marker *-N. The Non-Singular Markers *-i and *-s. The Neuter Plural of Consonant Stems. The Origin of the Feminine Gender. The Subsequent Development of the Feminine Suffixes. The Origin of the Germanic Weak Adjectival Declension. The Origin of the Endingless Locative. Notes. A Brief Chronological Summary: Stage I. Stage II. Stage III. Stage IV. Stage V.