Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen

The monumental multi-volume comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages by Karl Brugmann (18491919) provided a synthesis of the first 70 years of research in a rapidly-developing academic subject and identified areas for future investigation. Volume 2 split into three parts covers morphology roots and inflection beginning with nouns and continuing with pronouns and verbs. It begins with a substantial introduction that includes bibliographic information and then focuses in turn on each Proto-Indo-European feature and its reflexes in the earliest attested languages of each language family (Sanskrit Avestan Armenian Greek Italic Germanic Old Irish Balto-Slavic). Comparisons are also made within families for example between Gothic and Old English. Owing to its length the original publisher bound this volume in two parts paginated as a single sequence; in this reissue it is divided into three parts maintaining the same pagination.