The druids and human sacrifice

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVIII I
2. Edgar C. Polomé: A biographical sketch 1
3. Bibliography of E. C. Polomé 2
4. Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt 21
5. On the origins of the Indo-European dative-locative singular endings 29
6. On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic inscriptions 43
7. Der indogermanische Aorist und das germanische Prateritum 55
8. Low German as a literary language in Schleswig-Holstein in the seventeenth century: A poem by Anna Ovena Hoyers 63
9. The origin of the Indo-European pronominal inflection 73
10. Meaning and pre-history of OIr. lúan láith 89
11. Gothic saihw and sai, with some notes on imperative interjections in Germanic 97
12. Pāṇini and the Northwestern dialect: Some suggestions on Sūtra 3.3.10 111
13. Post-script, errata, varia 123
14. On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain and Scandinavia 133
15. L’oubykh d’Evliya Çelebi: compléments 157
16. Ex Oriente Lux On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans 161
17. A bouquet of Armenian birds for Edgar Polomé 169
18. The Indo-European terms for ‘marriage’ 179
19. The development of Romani linguistics 183
20. The cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans 225
21. Language and ethnicity 235
22. On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex complements in some African languages 245
23. The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich 259
24. Zur Etymologie und Wortgeschichte von deutsch Amtsschimmel und Akt (in der Kunst) 269
25. Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature 279
26. An eastern etymon for sarape? 287
27. Orthographica onomastica 297
28. Old Irish boí ‘was’ 299
29. Topic-prominence and zero NP-anaphora in Marathi and Hindi 309
30. Yima et la mort 329
31. Competing generalizations and linguistic change 335
32. Ostgermanische Relikte im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum 347
33. Vestjysk stød, Icelandic preaspiration, and Proto-Indo-European glottalic stops 353
34. Adhikāra – right and responsibility 359
35. Some problems in the translation of Beowulf 365
36. “The Divine Twins” or “The Twins ... Divine?” 373
37. The druids and human sacrifice 381
38. Some remarks on ‘laryngeals’ and Celtic 397
39. L’extraposition du prédicat verbal dans les créoles à base lexicale anglaise et française 401
40. Les champs sémantiques de la racine *H2ei-g- en grec 419
41. Le système des modes en latin classique: présentation fonctionnaliste 439
42. The Sacred Marriage – a study in Norse mythology 449
43. Zum Verhaltnis der grammatischen Kategorien Person und Modus im Indogermanischen 461
44. Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary 475
45. The Horn of Gallehus and the subgrouping of the Germanic languages 489
46. Sacerdos ‘qui sacrum dat’, sacrum dare and sacra facere in ancient Italy 509
47. On the source of Hittite halzai- 525
48. Sul nome dei ‘Veneti’ 529
49. The impact of language (morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf redux 535
50. Damned in-laws and other problems 551
51. Tense vs. aspect in Sango and Swahili of Lubumbashi 565
52. The role of the Tamil film in language change and political change 581
53. Comments on some of the Indo-European medio-passive endings 591
54. n Armenian phonology and Indo-European reconstruction 601
55. Talk about tu and vous 611
56. Heroic ethical philosophy and philosophical consolation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 621
57. Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Anreger einer niederlandisch-sprachigen Neuphilologie 631
58. Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture 649
59. Bilingualism and mother tongue education 669
60. Na sthātavyam (‘Not Being Stayed’) in The Eight-Thousand-Line Perfection-of-Wisdom Sutra 681
61. The languages of the peoples of the USSR 689
62. The role of continental contacts for Scandinavian glottogenesis with special reference to the enclitic passive 715
63. Umlaut-disrupting factors in Germanic 731
64. Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindu-Urdu 741
65. Die innergermanische Lautverschiebung und die Entstehung der germanischen und deutschen Dialekte 749
66. Translation: Minimizing errors in the thought process 763
67. Cardinal points and other directions in Tocharian A and B 775