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Laryngeals and the Indo-European Desiderative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Jaan Puhvel
Jaan Puhvel*
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Harvard University
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This is an attempt to suggest briefly a systematic approach to a number of desiderative or future formations in various IE languages. Taking laryngeals into consideration, I hope to show their possible inclusion under a single formula. No exhaustive study of all variants or subtypes is intended, and no attempt is made to trace the working of analogy which was certainly involved in formations of this kind. The main object is, however, to disqualify some of the more awkward appeals to analogy which have seemed necessary so far.

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Language , Volume 29 , Issue 4: October-December , December 1953, pp. 454 - 456
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Copyright © 1953 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 For these, cf. Magnien, Emplois et origines du futur grec 285 ff. (Paris, 1912).

2 Whitney, Sanskrit grammar 372 ff.

3 Cf. Puhvel, Indo-European negative composition, Lg. 29.14 ff. (1953).

4 Thurneysen, A grammar of Old Irish 414 (Dublin, 1946).

5 For a general picture, see Magnien, op.cit. (fn. 1) and Les formes du futur grec (Paris, 1912) ; Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec 289 ff. (Paris, 1945) ; Buck, Comp, grammar of Greek and Latin 228 ff. (Chicago, 1948).

6 Cf. Meillet-Vendryes, Grammaire comparée des langues classiques 192, 210 ff. (Paris, 1948).

7 Those who prefer something like -em-Ḥ- to Ḫ are making with theoretical en. tities of Hirt and Cuny–Couvreur instead of Brugmann–Edgerton and Kurylowicz–Sturtevant. Certain features of my reconstructions are somewhat controversial, such as the allophone -ṇn- and the long resonant . Their use represents no belief on my part in their particular phonetic probability or even phonematic superiority, but they are employed as the theoretical symbols that I find most useful in systematizing the IE phonematic relationships.