Price List of the of the Linguistic Society of America Publications of 1925, including LANGUAGE I and LANGUAGE MONOGRAPH No. 1....$5.00 Publications of 1926, including LANGUAGE II, .$5.00 LANGUAGE, separate numbers, each. . . . . . . . $1.50 LANGUAGE MONOGRAPH No. 1: ESPER, LOUIS H. GRAY: The Inflection of the Present Indicative Active in Indo-European.. CHARLES C. FRIES: The Expression of the Future. 71 87 LOUISE POUND: The Etymology of an English Expletive... 96 100 105 EDGAR H. STURTEVANT: Hittite h Initial = Indo-European bh.... 109 LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA Founded 1984 OFFICERS FOR 1927 President, PROFESSOR CARL DARLING BUCK, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Vice-President, PROFESSOR EDGAR HOWARD STURTEVANT, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Secretary and Treasurer, PROFESSOR ROLAND G. KENT, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Executive Committee, the preceding, and PROFESSOR EDWARD SAPIR, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. PROFESSOR LEONARD BLOOMFIELD, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. PROFESSOR EDWARD PROKOSCH, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Committee on Publications: Chairman and Editor: PROFESSOR GEORGE MELVILLE BOLLING, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Term expiring 1927: PROFESSOR DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Term expiring 1928: PROFESSOR AURELIO M. ESPINOSA, Stanford University, California. Term expiring 1929: PROFESSOR SAMUEL MOORE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. The Linguistic Society of America was founded in December, 1924, for the advancement of the scientific study of language. The Society plans to promote this aim by bringing students of language together in its meetings, and by publishing the fruits of research. It has established both a quarterly journal and a series of monographs; the latter will appear at irregular intervals, according to the material offered to the Committee on Publications and the funds available for the purpose. Members will receive both in return for the annual dues of Five Dollars. Membership in the Society is not restricted to professed scholars in linguistics. All persons, whether men or women, who are in sympathy with the objects of the Society, are invited to give it their assistance in furthering its work. Application for membership should be made to the Secretary, Professor Roland G. Kent, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Baltimore, Maryland. This Journal is published quarterly by the Linguistic Society of America. Members of the Society receive it without extra charge, three dollars of the annual dues being appropriated for this purpose; to others, its price is five dollars per annum. Subscriptions and other business communications should be addressed to Language, or to Roland G. Kent, Treasurer, L. S. A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Manuscripts for publication should be sent to George Melville Bolling, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. THE INFLECTION OF THE PRESENT INDICATIVE ACTIVE IN INDO-EUROPEAN LOUIS H. GRAY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I. Introductory The difference between the present indicative active personal endings in the athematic and thematic conjugations is self-evident, as in Greek δίδωμι, δίδωσι (Doric) in contrast with λύω, λύει. It is also recognised that the Old Irish verb shows the same phenomenon in its 'absolute' and 'conjunct' forms (without and with preverbs respectively), as berim <*bheremi and -biur < *bherō.2 Old Lithuanian presents a similar distinction:3 Sporadic instances are found elsewhere in the first person singular and plural: 1 For general summaries, with citations of preceding literature and bibliographies, see especially K. Brugmann, Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen2 2. 3. 583-642, Strasbourg, 1916; A. Meillet, Introduction à l'étude comparative des langues indo-européennes 190-5, Paris, 1922. See especially Meillet, 'Sur l'origine de la distinction des flexions conjointe et absolue dans le verbe irlandais', in Revue celtique 28 (1907). 369–73, and MSLP 14 (1908). 412-15, 18 (1914). 234; H. Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen 2. 331-44, Göttingen, 1913; R. Thurneysen, Handbuch des Alt-Irischen 326–7, 337-41, Heidelberg, 1909. For the material see A. Bezzenberger, Beiträge zur Geschichte der litauischen Sprache 198-201; Göttingen, 1877; F. Kurschat, Grammatik der littauischen Sprache 304-6, Halle, 1876; A. Leskien, Litauisches Lesebuch 195-7, Heidelberg, 1919. |