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PIE TO GERMANIC (PHONETIC SYSTEM (ACCENTUAL SYSTEM (PIE (Free/Floating…
PIE TO GERMANIC
VERBAL SYSTEM
PIE
MOOD
Indicative (descriptive facts)
Imperative (command)
Optative (wish)
Injuctive (unreality)
Subjunctive (possibility)
VOICE
by infl
Active voice
Passive voice
Middle voice
PERSON & NUMBER
TENSE & ASPECT
Present stem (ongoing action)
Past stem (completed action)
Future stem (resultant action
GERMANIC
TENSE & ASPECT
Present form
Past form
MARKED TENSE
Changing the vowel of the base
Past tense adding a dental
Weak Verbs
Strong Verbs
MOOD
Indicative
Imperative
Subjunctive (SYNCRETISM)
VOICE
by aux v
Active voice
Passive voice (SYNCRETISM)
PERSON & NUMBER
NOMINAL SYSTEM
NOUNS
PIE
inflected for
Nom
Acc
Gen
Dat
Ablative
Locative
Instrumental
Vocative
GERMANIC
inflected for
Acc
Nom
Gen
Dat
Instr
ADJECTIVES
GERMANIC
endings
Strong Declension (indefinite noun)
Weak Declension (definite noun)
PHONETIC SYSTEM
ACCENTUAL SYSTEM
PIE
Free/Floating Stress
Number of syllables
Case
Word class
GERMANIC
Fixed Stress
1st syllable
EXCEPTIONS (words with prefixes)
Verbal prefixes were never stressed
Nouns and Adjectives
Compound words - 1st syllable second word
PHONEMIC CHANGES
unconditioned sound change
Grimm's Law
Voiceless plosive > voiceless fricative
Voiced plosive > Voiceless plosive
Voiced aspirated plosive > Voiced plosive
Verner's Law
Voiceless plosive > Voiced plosive
Conditions
Voiced environment
Stress did not fall in the syllable preciding
VOWEL SYSTEM
PIE
Short Vowels /a, e, i, o, u/
Long vowels /ā ē ī ō ū/
Reduced vowels /ə/
Syllabic nasals /m̩, n̩/
Syllabic liquids /r̩ l̩/
Diphthongs
GERMANIC
Short vowel merger
/ə a o/ > /a/
Long vowel merger
/ā ō/ > /ō/
/ē/ > /ǣ/
/ēi/ > /ē/
DIPHTONGS
/ai oi/ > /ai/
/au ou/ > /au/
/ei/ > /ī/ /ēi/ > /ē/
SYNTACTIC SYSTEM
PIE
SOV
GERMANIC
SOV
SVO
LEXICAL SYSTEM
PIE
Comparative method to reconstruct basic vocabulary
Kinship Terms: Patriarchal society
GERMANIC
words were not cognates in other IE languages: same concepts but they do not have the same route
Some words were only Germanic