Jacobsohn 1923

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Hermann Jacobsohn, "Kasusflexion und Gliederung der indogermanischen Sprachen", in: unknown (ed.), Antidoron: Festschrift Jacob Wackernagel zur Vollendung des 70. Lebensjahres gewidmet von Schülern, Freunden und Kollegen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1923, 204-216.

Author/Editor: Hermann Jacobsohn
Type: grammar, text edition, linguistic study
Language: English
Link to Author: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Jacobsohn
In: Festschrift Wackernagel 1923
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Commentary

In the context of a typological discourse about flection and structure of the Indo-European languages, it is stressed that, while the Gaulish still has the dative in its proper grammatical function, but in the form "-u" (and Breton as well as Irish use a grammatical construction with the Proto-Celtic preposition *to), the Lepontic inscriptions, which have to be attributed to a Celtic dialect, have "der idg. Dativ formal und sintattisch noch ganz lebendig" (the Indo-European dative formally and syntactically still very much alive) (p. 213).