@inbook{3d097be2daf24dd78ed3e16957d57cf2,
title = "Italo-Celtic and the Inflection of *es- 'be'",
abstract = "It is well-known that the present tense of the verb *es- {\textquoteleft}to be{\textquoteright} in the Italic languages shows a mixture of what look as if they were thematic forms (e.g. Old Latin 1 sg. es-om) beside athematic forms (e.g. Latin 3sg. *es-t). A similar state of affairs is attested in the Celtic languages. Within the broader perspective of Indo-European, the thematic forms are puzzling, and efforts have been undertaken to explain them away as secondary. I argue that those efforts have not been successful. By combining the rich but complicated evidence provided by the Celtic languages with the Italic data, it becomes necessary to reconstruct a thematic beside an athematic present of *es- for Italo-Celtic and to hypothesize that the thematic forms were originally used after a focused constituent.",
author = "P.C.H. Schrijver",
year = "2019",
month = dec,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1163/9789004416192\_012",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-41450-1",
series = "Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages \& Linguistics",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "209--235",
editor = "Matilde Serangeli and Thomas Olander",
booktitle = "Dispersals and Diversification",
address = "Netherlands",
}