Ein verkannter Beitrag der Prager Indogermanistik zur nominalen Wortbildung (Zur unpublizierten Dissertation von Jaromír Jedlička)

The unpublished dissertation of Jaromír Jedlička, O zvláštním případu parallelismu suffixů v jazycích indoevropských [On a Special Case of Suffix Parallelism in Indo-European Languages], Prague 1894 (178 pp.) investigated nominal derivations with the suffixes *-es/s- and *-ró-, *-ló-, *-mó-, *-nó-, taking into account all Indo-European languages known at that time and analysing 284 roots. His systematic account of the s-suffix and parallel nominal suffixes, written almost simultaneously with the publications of Caland, marks a long overlooked pioneering contribution to the understanding of relationships between nominal and verbal derivation in Indo-European.234

Notes on the interpretation of Plato's Meno

The ignorance of the interlocutor detected with the help of the elenchos in the first part of the dialogue is starting point for the positive dialectical part. We do not need anysupport in the alleged secret unwritten doctrine for understanding the sense and main issues of this dialogue. Two points are discussed in this contribution: the failure of the analogy between geometry and ethics, the suggestion of the possible teacher of political arete