Towards an assessment of decasuative derivation in Indo-European

What is it about?

This paper contributes to an ongoing discussion about how words were formed in the ancient Indo-European languages. It has been claimed that words can be derived directly from inflected case-forms of other words. This model has been criticized. This paper discusses and attempts to evaluate both the criticism and the model, and suggests that it is a valid model in theory but that it has been applied too broadly and without sufficient evidence.

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