Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-407) and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonological Background -- 3 Nominal Inflection -- 4 Verbal Inflection -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages. Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas Olander provides a new look at the Proto-Slavic inflectional system. The systematic, coherent and exhaustive approach laid out in the handbook paves the way for new solutions to long-standing problems of Slavic historical grammar.