Daniel Petit, PhD (1996), Habilitation (2002), is Professor of Historical Linguistics of the Indo-European languages at the Ecole normal supérieure (ENS) and Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), both in Paris (France). He has published monographs and articles on the Indo-European languages, with particular emphasis on Ancient Greek and Baltic languages.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Historical Syntax and Indo-European Linguistics2 Accessing Indo-European3 The Uniformitarian Principle4 PIE Dialectology5 Theoretical Framework2 What Is Syntax?1 Introduction2 Multiple Heads: Predicates over the Object in Indo-European3 Non-hierarchical Syntactic Relations: Coordination in Indo-European4 Double-Sided Relations: Nominal Apposition in Indo-European5 Genitive and Dative6 Conclusion3 Historical Syntax and Its Mechanisms1 Introduction2 Reanalysis3 Extension4 Historical Syntax and Language Contact5 Conclusion4 The Comparative Method: Internal Aspects1 Introduction2 Internal Description3 Internal Reconstruction4 Internal Comparison5 Conclusion5 The Comparative Method: External Aspects1 External Comparison2 External Reconstruction3 External Description4 Conclusion6 Historical Syntax and Morphological Marking1 Introduction2 The Submerged Genitive in Indo-European3 Demonstratives and Gender Attraction in Indo-European4 Non-Canonical Subjects in the Indo-European Languages5 Transitivity and Ergativity in Indo-European6 The Classical Armenian Perfect and Its Constructions7 Head-Marking: The Ezāfe-Construction in Iranian8 Adjectival Definiteness in Germanic9 Conclusion7 Historical Syntax and Syntactic Autonomy1 Introduction2 Elliptical Genitives3 Elliptical Adjectives4 Adpositions and Verbal Constructions in Ancient Greek5 The Definite Article and Possession in Germanic and Celtic6 Subordination and Syntactic Autonomy7 Conclusion8 Historical Syntax and Semantics1 Introduction2 The Meaning of Number in Indo-European3 Grammatical Gender4 Historical Syntax and Lexical Semantics5 Apudessives in Indo-European6 Cases and Semantic Roles7 The Evolution of Locative Roles in Indo-European8 Conclusion9 Historical Syntax and Syntactic Linearity1 Introduction2 Verb-Initial in Indo-European3 Split Possession and Position Rules in Albanian4 Word Order Implications: Negations and Adverbs5 Indo-European Tmesis6 ConclusionConclusion1 Syntactic Analysis and Its Objects2 Causality in Historical Syntax3 Historical Syntax and the Comparative Method4 The Syntactic Profile of Indo-European5 A Retrospective GlanceBibliographyIndex notionumIndex linguarumIndex verborumIndex locorum