Nominal apposition in Indo-European: Its forms and functions, and its evolution 
in Latin-Romance.

Bauer, Brigitte L. M.

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Nominal apposition in Indo-European: Its forms and functions, and its evolution in Latin-Romance.

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Bauer, Brigitte L. M.
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Other Research, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Bauer, B. L. M. (2017). Nominal apposition in Indo-European: Its forms and functions, and its evolution in Latin-Romance. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-56A9-9

Abstract

Nominal apposition—the combining of two equivalent nouns—has been a neglected topic in (Indo-European) linguistics, despite its prominence in syntax and morphology (i.c. composition). This book presents an extensive comparative and diachronic analysis of nominal apposition in Indo-European, examining its occurrence, its syntactic and morphological characteristics and functions in the early languages, identifying parallels with similar phenomena elsewhere (e.g. noun classification and script determinatives), and tracing its evolution in Latin-Romance.
While nominal apposition is not exclusive to Indo-European, its development fits the evolution of Indo-European grammar.