Abstract
This work presents a concise and state--of--the--art grammar of the reconstructed proto--language of the Indo--European linguistic family. Drawing on a long tradition of Indo--European studies in Prague, it aims to provide the Czech reader with the necessary background for the study of the older Indo--European languages such as Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Gothic, Old Irish, Hittite or Old Church Slavonic in a comparative perspective, while at the same time offering an explanation for the present state of the Czech language.
Though succinct, it covers all the crucial topics, either long settled or still disputed, of the field of the Proto--Indo--European grammar.