This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues concerning the comparison of syntactic structrures within the language family and the reconstruction of their common ancestor.
ISBN:
9789004742024
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Daniel Petit, PhD (1996), Habilitation (2002), is Professor of Historical Linguistics of the Indo-European languages at the Ecole normal supérieure (ENS) and Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), both in Paris (France). He has published monographs and articles on the Indo-European languages, with particular emphasis on Ancient Greek and Baltic languages.
This book is aimed at linguists specializing in the historical linguistics of Indo-European languages, as well as at those in historical and general linguistics.