Proto-Indo-European Phonology

by Winfred P. Lehmann

The description of PIE phonology found in our handbooks date in great part from the nineteenth century. When we maintain these descriptions we accept the foundations on which they are based. At present our data have been increased by Hittite, and our linguistic methodology refined. In this monograph I shall examine the new data and some well-known but unexplained data in accordance with our current linguistic methodology and propose a revised description of PIE phonology.

Genres: Linguistics

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Winfred P. Lehmann, historical linguist, served as the director of the Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1941. He began teaching at UT-Austin in 1949 and has been professor emeritus since 1986.
An important contribution was his Proto-Indo-European Syntax, the first and one of the few existing treatments of Proto-Indo-European syntax in a generative framework.

In 1979 he published an updated version of Schleicher's fable together with Ladislav Zgusta.