%0 Book %A Arbeitman, Yoël L. %A Bomhard, Allan R., (eds) %T Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes) %D 1981 %I John Benjamins %R https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.16 %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027280954, %X The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.