Hittite and the Indo-European Verb [Hardcover]

The disconnects between Hittite and the other early Indo-European languages have been extensively explored, and scholars have realized that the conventional picture of the parent language must be modified to account for the facts of Hittite. Jay Jasanoff proposes the most thorough and systematic resolution of the problem yet published, putting forth a revolutionary model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system.

1. The problem of the hi-conjugation
2. Morphological preliminaries: the perfect and the middle
3. The h2e-conjugation: root presents
4. The h2e-conjugation: i-presents
5. The h2e-conjugation: other characterized presents
6. h2e-conjugation aorists: part one
7. h2e-conjugation aorists: part two
8. Retrospective
Appendices

Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that the Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fittred into any model of the dispersal of the language family, in the long run...inHittite and the Indo-European Verb, we can see how the whole picture fits together. ...a major event --Times Literary Supplement