Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal

Chapters in this book

1. I-XXVIII I
2. Patterns of stress and rhythm in Tocharian Β prosody 1
3. Old Irish masu ‘if is’ and similar forms 13
4. On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts 19
5. A concept of truth for linguistic semantics 35
6. Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian Β -e- presents without initial palatalization 63
7. Some thoughts on ‘Universals’ 77
8. Latin static morphology and paradigm families 87
9. Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan 101
10. Some taboo-words in Iranian languages of Central Asia 121
11. Apposition and word-order typology in Indo-European 131
12. Reading Molière’s The Learned Ladies – remarks on (im)politeness 153
13. Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism? Lessons from the past for the present and the future 167
14. On the origin of Tocharian terms for GRAIN 189
15. The Hittite reflexive construction in a typological perspective 211
16. Praise and Honor (Gothic hazjan, Old English hergan, and Russian čest’) 233
17. The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite 241
18. Realism in Indo-European Linguistics 245
19. Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian 257
20. Categorizing the Japanese lexicon. A proposal with a background 271
21. Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal 287
22. ‘But’ without switch-reference 293
23. Fresh shoots from a vigourous stem: IE *u̯ih1ró- 313
24. On the tracks of the Tocharian Guru 331
25. Eventide in Hatti-land 347
26. An integrated view on ablaut and accent in Indo-European 351
27. An early rule of syncope in Tocharian 359
28. The Latin imperfect in -bā-, the Proto-Indo-European root *bhu̯eh2- and full grade I forms from seṭ-roots with full grade II 363
29. Conceptualization of agency in contemporary Polish 385
30. Ouvrier, Arbeiter, workman, rabočij, obrero, operaio 405
31. Classical Armenian Η AG AG ‘breath’ and OGEM ‘to speak’ 419
32. Index 429
33. Index of examples 439
34. Tabula Gratulatoria 441