A Study of Indo-European Compositional Prefixes of Negative Value

The thesis first investigates the character of the most primitive use of the Indo-European negative prefix. It appeared mainly in bahuvrihi and synthetic verbal adjectives. In the light of modern IE research which has established the high primitivity of both these types of investigation is made into their nature with reference to n-. A discussion of the various […] types shows the probability of their ultimate bahuvrihi origin, leading to the conclusion that n- was originally a bahuvrihi element. […]

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Canada

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McGill University
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Keywords

LANGUAGE -- COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY, Indo-European compositional prefixes, Indo-European languages-comparative treatises, Language--comparative philology, Language -- Comparative philology, INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES -- COMPARATIVE TREATISES

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