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einige Hille des Genitivus possessivus besprochen werden."
Examples of the "Objektivus" and "Partitivus" would have
been interesting and helpful. The use of the asterisk which
normally indicates a reconstructed form is difficult to follow in
Krause's book. On p. 63, for example, we have Germanic
bergan, Prim. Norse rgibi«, *gibip, IE esti and Prim. Germanic
*wilpia-. Such inconsistency can also be found elsewhere in the
work. In Section C, "Die Sprachformen der urnordischen
Inschriften", it is never made entirely clear which paragraphs
contain a complete list of examples of the relevant feature or class
of word, and which merely include an arbitrary number for
illustration. A note at the beginning of § 28: "Zur Bildung der
einzelnen Kasus (die gesammelten Beispiele s. §§ 88-g8)" makes
it clear that those paragraphs which deal with noun inflexions are
intended to be complete, but then in § 32, 3 a list of forms is
preceded by the statement: "AuBerdem seien hier folgende
Einzelbeispiele herausgestellt", and in § 104 ("Schwache Verba"),
which otherwise appears to be complete, the important form
dalidun from the Tune stone is missing as well as the probable
r st pers. sing. pres. indic. wija from the Vimose buckle (Kr. 24).
Some perceptible order, numerical, alphabetical or other would
also have been helpful in these lists of examples in Section C.
There are a number of points made by Krause which are less
than clear to me, but this may be due to the uncertain nature of
the material.
I. It is difficult to see why Krause concludes that the one-time
dental ending of the jrd pers. sing. indic, pres. in Scandinavian
must have been -p (and not -0) "von Haus aus" (p. 42), when the
only certain example of this ending is from the very period in
which it is believed that unvoicing of spirants in final position took
place and from the same stone (Stentoften) that has gAl (