Abstract
In 1927 I published in this Journal (3. 71-86) a study on 'The Inflection of the Present Indicative Active in Indo-European.' Since that time, further investigation, particularly along the lines of vocalic alternation (apophony, 'Ablaut'), with its underlying factor of accent, has led me to conclusions which seem to me so much deeper in foundations and, in a measure, so much broader in results that I regard that older discussion as practically supplanted by the one which I now present. This investigation forms part of a series of three, the other two being 'Sur l'inflexion des pr6tendus th6mes en -i' and 'Vocalic Alternation in the Disyllabic Base in Indo-European', to appear almost simultaneously with this in the Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris and the American Journal of Philology respectively. To the 'Disyllabic Base' I must refer for the theory of alternation here assumed, and there one will see that the difference between athematic and thematic bases still
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