Reconstitution de chaînes sémiogénétiques en proto-indo-européen au moyen d’une méthode statistique appliquée à ses submorphèmes : son application à la notion de ‘brûler’

Abstract

Here, I present a method called « semantic correlation » which is symmetric in terms of form and meaning to the comparative method, and apply it to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and some of its submorphemes. This method enables to establish paradigmatic semiogenetic links between elementary notions. A reconstruction of etymological trees around the notion of « blowing » is then proposed through the reconstruction of the form and meaning of Pre-PIE etymons. The application of this method to the whole PIE lexicon should improve the understanding of the semantic structure of PIE, and could enable us to reconstruct a stage of language prior to PIE, leading one step further back towards the emergence of language.

Keywords

• Proto-Indo-European
• Pre-Indo-European
• comparative method
• semantic correlation
• etymological trees