The Question of Proto-Indo-European Inheritance in Latin Word Formation

Abstrakt

The paper argues that the diachronic distinction of being inherited or non-inherited has important implications for the synchronic semantic and formal analysis of word formative types. Moreover, it shows that the (not always trivial) distinction between inherited and non-inherited (= analogical) formations also plays a pivotal role in the description of the phonological system of the language.

Klíčová slova

• word-formation
• Latin
• Proto-Indo-European