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    THE SOUND OF INDO-EUROPEAN 2 PAPERS ON INDO-EUROPEAN PHONETICS, PHONEMICS AND MORPHOPHONEMICS, Roman Sukaé & Ondiej Seféik (eds.) 2012 LINCOM EUROPA, ‘The structure of nominal paradigms in Indo-European languages Rosemarie Lahr The inflection of the oldest Indo-European languages shows different kinds of underspcifcation inthe nominal paradigm, With egatd tothe a= and d-stems in Old Indian, the most frequent stems in this language, the case system displays the most instances of underspecifcaion. Confer forthe masculine and feminine: (1(@) maseutine plural nominativelvocative devi, datvelablative devébhyah ‘ual nominstive/vocative/accusative devi, Insumentaldauvelablave deutbfindm, geniivetocaive deh (1b) feminine singular ablativegenitive sénayah ‘lua nominaive/vocativerceusative sénah ‘dual nominative/vocativeaceusatve séne, instrumenta/ative/abatve sénabnydny, genkivellocative sénayon"| "Number isnot underspecitied with one exception: (2) feminine vocative singulae sone and the dual nominativevoe ‘And gender, except that ofthe genitive plural, (8) genitive plural masculine devin, feminine sendin des not display underspeciictio, Following Corbet's definition of gender (1991: 44): i's first defining property is agreement. Secondly, gender is the most idiosyncratic of the fanctional categories of the noun, since itis either specified by vieue of inherent properties (natural kinds, of ‘sorts’), ori is arbitearily specified and hence must be learn for the noun in question,” Gender is more important than number, since gender ‘is inherently fixed for @ noun, whereas [number] is usually instantiated and gives rise to diferent word forms i the paradigm of a noun” ‘Concerning nouns the gender seems to be the most important grammatical category: ‘Therefore, we will deal with phenomena that are connected to gender diferentiation in the following. Firstly, we will treat transformations that bring about gender differences in the ‘nominal paradigm. Then, we will tar 0 the relation of inflection and word formation of the feminine gender. In the process we will also talk about the semantic domain thst is Here, an important charctrstic of the morphophanemics of the nominal paradigms of Old Indian becomes clears In establishing paradigms, the Old Indian grammarians used the folowing procedure: identical cae forms are never separated from eachother. Compare the co-owumenee of the homephonic genitive and ablative singular ofthe Gems or the Co bscurence ofthe homopbunic dave and alave plural. Ths very old tradition has the sme Imotvation at the Minimalist Momphology staysis The purposes of the leamer of padigms are espcted (Wundetich & Fabri 993), 182 fundamental for expressing the sexus femininam. Final word class tha is linked the sbove. ve will discuss the conception of 1. Transformations according tothe pronoun Sticking to the paradigm ofthe Old Indion a- and stems for the moment one can find endings that usually occur on pronouns. One assumes that proncminaly inflected adjectives like viéva- “al” are responsible for ths. However, mostly demonstrative pronouns ae the

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