Melissa Frazier: Accent In Proto-Indo-European Athematic Nouns: Antifaithfulness in Inflectional Paradigms (Under the direction of Jennifer L. Smith) This paper examines four accent patterns displayed by athematic nouns in Proto-Indo-European. Each accent pattern is distinguished by either alternating stress or vowel quality between " weak " forms (nominative, accusative, vocative) and " strong...

Abstract This paper employs phylogenetic modeling to reconstruct the alignment system of Indo-European. We use a data set categorical morphosyntactic features, which take states such as ‘nominative-accusative’, ‘active-stative’, or ‘ergative’. analyze these characters with standard Bayesian comparative method, inferring transition rates between character on basis representation languages in dat...

This paper argues that the standard etymology of Vedic brav i ‘to say, to speak, tell’ from Proto-Indo-European * mleu ̯ h 2 - speak’ (and its connection with Avestan mrao speak’) cannot be upheld, since it is based on an irregular consonant change independently motivated and explained. As alternative, two different PIE verbal roots will proposed, melH-u → H bleu 2/3 -‘to speak or call’, provide...

In this thesis, I examine the nominal morphology of Proto-Indo-European, Attic Greek, and Hittite in the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology (DM), a recent theory which departs from traditional conceptions of morphology in a number of ways. In the first three chapters, we will address these three languages one at a time, showing that DM gives us new insight into the synchronic syste...

Abstract This paper presents a detailed etymological analysis of words for ‘fox’ in Indo-European ( IE ) languages. We argue that most ‘fox’-words go back to two distinct PIE stems: * h₂lō̆p-eḱ - and ulp-i ‘wildcat, fox’. provide revised the etymology relationship among various Indo-Iranian ‘fox’-words, we Baltic preserves remnants ḱ -suffix found Greek, Armenian, Indo-Iranian. Additionally, des...