Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. William R. Schmalstieg: The Man and the Scholar xi
5. Publications 1956–2004 xxiii
6. On the Genitive with Neuter Participles and Verbal Nouns in Lithuanian 1
7. “To Be” or “Not To Be” in the Indo-European Languages 7
8. Lithuanian esmí and esú “I am” 19
9. On the Subject of Old Prussian Estate Names 27
10. Indo-European * men- and * tel- 33
11. Baltic Palaeocomparativism and the Idea That Prussian Derives from Greek 37
12. Phrase and Idiom in Bretke’s Old Lithuanian Bible 51
13. Indo-European * peiḱ- and * peik- 63
14. Proclisis in Greek 67
15. On the Marking of Predicate Nominals in Baltic 75
16. Prussica 1-3 91
17. Finnish terve “sound, healthy”, Slavonic *sъdorvъ “id.”, and Lithuanian tervė́tis “recover, mend, convalesce” 103
18. Derivational Morphology of the Early Indo-European Verb 113
19. Irregular Sound Change Due to Frequency and the Introduction by Szemerényi 125
20. Thoughts on Declension in the Old Prussian Catechism 135
21. Problems in the Reconstruction of Certain Endings of the Lithuanian Optative 137
22. “Rain” and “ant” 143
23. Hans M. Schmidt-Wartenberg, A Forgotten Balticist 153
24. Neuter Passive Participle in Modern Lithuanian 157
25. Observations on the Paradigms of Lithuanian dė́ti “set, place, lay” and dúoti “give” 165
26. On the Indo-European Origins of Greek 3rd Pl. Act.Imperative -ντον 173
27. Old Prussian dīnkausegīsnan 185
28. Double Orthography in American Lithuanian Newspapers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 189
29. Hittite -za and Reflexivity Marking 203
30. Once More about the “North-Russian” литва and its Mythologized Image 209
31. Latvian braŋgs 231
32. The Celtic Language of the Iberian Peninsula 243
33. “Old Prussian” in M. Prätorius‘ Delicae Prussicae 275
34. New Data on Resolving the Puzzle of the Wolfenbüttel Postilla 285
35. Index 291