Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)

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Bono Homini Donum

Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)

Edited by: Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1981

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Volume 16 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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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.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Table of contens Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Section I: Kerns-Schwartz coda
On the Indo-european tense system J. Alexander Kerns and Benjamin Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Section II: Indo-european studies
The pre-History of Tocharian preterite participles Douglas Q. Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Rhotacism in hieroglyphic Luwian (with commentary by Allan R. Bomhard) Yoël L. Arbeitman and Gilbert-James Ayala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Anaphoriques du type νι ν en hittite Françoise Bader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Intervocalic laryngeal in Gatha-Avestan Robert S.P. Beekes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Venetic revisited Madison S. Beeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
New linguistic data for Hispano-Celtic An evaluation Cornelius Joseph Crowley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Levels of phonological restriction in Greek affixes Edwin D. Floyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Some characteristics of modern colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg Byw) Robert A. Fowkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Concerning the reply of Kerns and Schwarz to Austin John A.C. Greppin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Albanian edhe “and” Eric P. Hamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
“Decem” and “Taihyn” languages An Indo-European isogloss Paul J. Hopper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Judeo-Italian lexical items collected by Zalman Yvoely George Jochnowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
L’imaginaire en linguistique Guy Jucquois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
The genitive singular ending in — syo How an Indo-Europeanist works Winfred P. Lehmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Etymological observations on bramling, bunting, fieldfare, godwit, and wren W.B. Lockwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Noch einmal hethitisch ḫeu- “regen” Erich Neu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
A functional viwew of word equations Christian Peeters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Greek nouns of the type of κνημΐς James W. Poultney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
“Spider” and “mole” in hittite Jaan Puhvel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Ergatrivity in Indo-European William R. Schmalstieg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
On Hittite-Luwian andIndo-European etymologies Vitalij Shevoroshkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
On Indo-European sigmatic verbal formations Kenneth Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Sprachverfall und Sprachtod besonders im Lichte indogermaischer Sprachen Oswald Szemerényi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Schwundstufige Formen von langvokalischen Verben im Altindischen Johann Tischler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Recherches comparatives sur le vocabolaire des langues anatoliennes A.J. van Windekens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Hittite ḫarziyalla- Calvert Watkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Section III: Typological studies and distant linguistic relationship
Indo-European and Afroasiatic New evidence for the connetction Allan R. Bomhard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Typological paralells between Proto-Indo-European and the northwest Cuacasian languages John Colarusso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
Volume II
Typology versus reconstruction George Dunkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
Language typology and language universals and their implications for the reconstruction of the Indo- European stop system Thomas V. Gamkrelidze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	571
Section IV: Afroasiatic studies
An inquiry into the formation of the Middle Aramaic dialects Daniel Boyarin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	613
Les niveaux de langue dans la poésie populaire arabe du maghreb Jaques Grand’Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	651
Coptic double consonants Carleton T. Hodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	659
Diglossia in ancient Hebrew as revealed through compound verbs Gary Rendsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	665
The structure and inflexion of the verb in the Semito-Mamitic grammar Otto Rössler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	679
Section V: Cretan studies
Santas and Kupapa on Crete Jon-Christian Billigmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	751
The Semitic language of Minoan Crete Cyrus H. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	761
The Phaistos disk, again? Benjamin Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	783
Section VI: Varia
La scomparsa del “passato remoto” in romanzo e in tedesco Giuliano Bonfante Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	803
Principles of stylistic analysis Giorgio Buccellati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	807
“Rekomponierte” Lehnbildungen Roberto Gusmani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	837
Altaic origins of the Japanese verb classes Roy Andrew Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	845
Can graphemic change cause phonemic change? Edgar C. Polomé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	881
The Hittite is my mother An Anatolean approach to Gennesis 23 (ex Indo-Europea lux) Yoël L. Arbeitman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	889
Index Verborum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1027

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9789027280954

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557, viii, 581 pp.

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Historical linguistics

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