Herbert Buchanan has countered this description of the work as " athematic ", and the general impression of it as " atonal ", in his own analysis.
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The most important such instance is the verb " to be ", which is athematic in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and many other Indo-European languages.
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However, when considering endings which are different for thematic and athematic inflections, it is generally included in the endings as well; see the section on fusion below.
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The older distinction between athematic and thematic stems had been lost, and generally nouns were divided into several declension classes based on the vowels or consonants before the case endings.
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In groups such as Germanic and Italic, the athematic verbs had almost gone entirely extinct by the time of written records, while Sanskrit and Ancient Greek preserve them more clearly.
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A few verbs derive directly from PIE athematic verbs, and one verb " * wiljan " " to want " forms its present indicative from the PIE optative mood.
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Stems ending in or such as are consonantic ( i . e . athematic ) because the is just the vocalic form of the glide, the full grade of the suffix being.
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The intensive is formed by reduplication of the root and the suffix " ya " with middle endings for thematic stems, and without suffix and active endings for athematic stems.
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The other conjugation, called'athematic', in which suffixes are added directly to roots, exists only in unproductive vestigial forms in Gothic, just like in Greek and Latin.
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During World War I, he served in the Verein f�r musikalische Privatauff�hrungen, and became particularly influenced by the " athematic " style used by Sch�nberg in his " Erwartung ".
