In the preliminary part of the master thesis Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-Greek Nominal Morphology I give a thorough survey of the phonetical changes which took place between the Proto-Indo-European and the individual Greek dialects of the Classical Period, whereby I make an attempt at establishing a relative (and when possible also absolute) chronology of these changes. On this basis and by means of forward reconstruction PIE > PG I form a hypothesis of what we would expect Proto-Greek nominal morphology to look like, were it dependent solely on the phonetical change.
In the main body I rely on the comparative method and linguistic reconstruction to reconstruct synthetic as well as analytic case morphemes on the individual prehistoric stages of Greek leading down to Proto-Greek. This reconstruction is based primarily on the linguistic material provided by Mycenaean and the Greek dialect corpus.
In the concluding part I give a concise overview of the synchronic state of the reconstructed Proto-Greek nominal morphology and present the major structural changes: (1) the ones that formed the Proto-Greek system from the Proto-Indo-European, and (2) the ones that started revealing first signs of dialectal development within Proto-Greek.
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