The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in Germanic

TY - JOUR

T1 - The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in Germanic

AU - Kroonen, Guus

PY - 2017/9/26

Y1 - 2017/9/26

N2 - It has long been acknowledged that Proto-Germanic ∗-dl- developed into ∗-ll- by a process of regular assimilation. Since long stops are regularly simplified in heavy and unstressed syllables in Proto-Germanic, some formations that superficially look like l-stems in this language are in reality to be derived from Proto-Indo-European instrumental nouns in PIE ∗-tl- and ∗-dhl-. In this paper, I adduce a number of new cases focusing on those l-stems that have instrumental semantics, but also including some abstract nouns.

AB - It has long been acknowledged that Proto-Germanic ∗-dl- developed into ∗-ll- by a process of regular assimilation. Since long stops are regularly simplified in heavy and unstressed syllables in Proto-Germanic, some formations that superficially look like l-stems in this language are in reality to be derived from Proto-Indo-European instrumental nouns in PIE ∗-tl- and ∗-dhl-. In this paper, I adduce a number of new cases focusing on those l-stems that have instrumental semantics, but also including some abstract nouns.

UR - https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/indo.2017.122.issue-1/if-2017-0005/if-2017-0005.xml

U2 - 10.1515/if-2017-0005

DO - 10.1515/if-2017-0005

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0019-7262

VL - 122

SP - 105

EP - 110

JO - Indogermanische Forschungen

JF - Indogermanische Forschungen

ER -