文档介绍：THE LAWS OF INDO-EUROPEAN
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Henning Andersen (Copenhagen); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles)
Thomas (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Roberts (Vancouver, .); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo)
Volume 35
. Collinge
The Laws of Indo-European
THE LAWS OF
INDO-EUROPEAN
N .E. COLLINGE
University of Manchester
JOHN BENJAMINS PANY
AmsterdamIPhiladelphia
1985
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Collinge, .
The laws of Indo-European.
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current
issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 35)
Bibliography
Includes index.
1. Indo-European languages -- Phonology, Historical. 2. Indo-European languages -•
Grammar, Historical. I. Title. 11. Series.
1985 410 85-9192
ISBN 90-272-3530-9 (alk. paper)
© Copyright 1985 - John Benjamins .
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or
any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
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FOR MILDRED, TOM AND ANNA
Les loix ...ont des rapports entre elles; elles
en ont avec leur origine, avec l'objet du
legislateur, avec l'or<1re des choses sur les·
queUes elles sont etablies. C'est dans toutes
ces vues qu'il faut les considerer.
Montesquieu: De ['esprit des /ois .
The worst I wish the law is, that his eye may
be opened by experience.
"'-
Dickens: Oliver Twist .
vi THE LAWS OF INDO-EUROPEAN
PREFACE
On first embarking on the stormy waters of Indo-European studies - as often
since - I wished I had a guide to those named 'laws' of history which scholars
seemed to treat as old friends, t