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The only satisfactory analysis of the Middle and literary Modern Breton relative clause is to assume that it is internally headed. In so doing we arrive at a rule that predicts which of the two verbal particles occurs pre-verbally in all constructions in the language.

The present paper is an analysis of the infinitival and participial forms of the following IE languages: (1) Sanskrit, (2) Old Church Slavonic, (3) Greek, (4) Latin, (5) Celtic, and (6) Germanic. A general outline of two types of rules, transformational and morphophonemic, for the generation of the verbal substantive (the so-called infinitive, supine, and gerund) will be presented. A similar outline of the rules for the generation of the verbal adjective will also be given. However, it should be noted that in our consideration we are attempting not so much an exact formulation of the rules as an analysis of them: that is, we are talking about the rules rather than attempting an explicit formulation of the rules. Finally, a reconstruction of this particular portion of the grammar of Indo-European will be made based on the descriptions of those IE languages we have considered.