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Some Indo–European Morphological Alternations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

James Wilson Poultney
James Wilson Poultney*
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The Johns Hopkins University
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Abstract

Variation in IE languages between morphemes containing o and yo is found in genitive singular and dative-ablative plural endings, in four non-finite verbal formations, and in the sigmatic future. Suffixation with o was a frequent source of IE adjectives. If the o was added to a noun stem in i or to a locative form ending in i, the resulting yo through re-analysis could itself become a productive suffix. The yo so derived was the basis of three participial formations. The sigmatic future and the Vedic infinitive in -dhyai derived their y from present formations with stems in yo. The genitive singular and dative-ablative plural endings must be otherwise explained.

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , December 1967 , pp. 871 - 882
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Copyright © 1967 Linguistic Society of America

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