Recently I had occasion to write a short contribution on the morphology of Old Indo-Aryan for a h... more Recently I had occasion to write a short contribution on the morphology of Old Indo-Aryan for a handbook of historical linguistics. I soon recognized, however, that we lack an up-to-date summary on the subject, so I expanded my manuscript. My colleague Velizar Sadovski examined my rough draft on my visit to Vienna in September 2009 and suggested to me that I should write a booklet including more thorough-going references to the preceding Indo-Iranian stage. The present monograph is the result. It is admittedly only a sketch, which is to be revised and enlarged with corrections and completions, especially with regard to recent researches in this field. I hope it serves nevertheless as a basis for future studies. I have put in this work many items of material and method I have learned from my teacher Karl Hoffmann, to whom I express my deepest respect, in Erlangen between 1977 and 1985, in those good days. This book is thus an "Erlangen program" of the eighties summarised from my perspective. Writing these lines, I remember Hoffmann's words that one should have the courage to fail in order to bring advances to our discipline. My teacher seems to have had for himself too little courage, but I venture it. I owe my scholarly training in Erlangen also to Gert Klingenschmitt and other colleagues. I express my sincere thanks to them. We have today a fundamental grammar of Avestan, which describes, so to speak, (Proto-)Indo-Iranian from the Avestan side: Avestische Laut-und Flexionslehre by Karl HOFFMANN and Bernhard FORSSMAN, Innsbruck 1996, 2 2004. So, I may begin with Old Indo-Aryan. Indo-European comparative grammar is important not only for philology and linguistics, but it is of fundamental importance for understanding human history as a whole and our position today in the "global" world. I try to trace word forms back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and to Proto-Indo-European. Many books have accompanied my work: among others,
Recently I had occasion to write a short contribution on the morphology of Old Indo-Aryan for a h... more Recently I had occasion to write a short contribution on the morphology of Old Indo-Aryan for a handbook of historical linguistics. I soon recognized, however, that we lack an up-to-date summary on the subject, so I expanded my manuscript. My colleague Velizar Sadovski examined my rough draft on my visit to Vienna in September 2009 and suggested to me that I should write a booklet including more thorough-going references to the preceding Indo-Iranian stage. The present monograph is the result. It is admittedly only a sketch, which is to be revised and enlarged with corrections and completions, especially with regard to recent researches in this field. I hope it serves nevertheless as a basis for future studies. I have put in this work many items of material and method I have learned from my teacher Karl Hoffmann, to whom I express my deepest respect, in Erlangen between 1977 and 1985, in those good days. This book is thus an "Erlangen program" of the eighties summarised from my perspective. Writing these lines, I remember Hoffmann's words that one should have the courage to fail in order to bring advances to our discipline. My teacher seems to have had for himself too little courage, but I venture it. I owe my scholarly training in Erlangen also to Gert Klingenschmitt and other colleagues. I express my sincere thanks to them. We have today a fundamental grammar of Avestan, which describes, so to speak, (Proto-)Indo-Iranian from the Avestan side: Avestische Laut-und Flexionslehre by Karl HOFFMANN and Bernhard FORSSMAN, Innsbruck 1996, 2 2004. So, I may begin with Old Indo-Aryan. Indo-European comparative grammar is important not only for philology and linguistics, but it is of fundamental importance for understanding human history as a whole and our position today in the "global" world. I try to trace word forms back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and to Proto-Indo-European. Many books have accompanied my work: among others,
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