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Title Comparative-historical linguistics : Indo-European and Finno-Ugric / edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 571 pages) : illustrations
Series Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi ; 3
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 97
Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi ; 3.
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 97. 0304-0763
Contents 2. Earlier views concerning the time of origin and manner of development of modal auxiliaries2.1. Brugmann's views; 2.2. Curme's views; 2.2.1. Modal auxiliaries vis-à-vis the subjunctive and imperative moods; 2.2.2. Comparative data for modal auxiliaries in older Germanic; 2.3. Lightfoot's views; 2.3.1. Excursus; 2.3.2. Data exhibiting modal auxiliaries in Old English; 3. Comparative syntactic reconstruction; 4. Assigning modal auxiliaries to Proto-Indo-European; 5. Conclusion; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUR LES VERBES FRÉQUENTATIFS ET CAUSATIFS EN INDO-EUROPÉEN; NOTES; SUMMARY
PERIPHRASTICA HOMEROHITTITOVEDICA1. ""Long see the sun"" = ""live""; 2. ""Bite the earth"" = ""die (in combat)""; 3. ""raise the hands"" = ""pray""; NOTES; ON INDOEUROPEAN LARYNGEALS AFTER WORD-INITIAL S-; NOTES; REFERENCES; RÉFLEXIONS SUR LE ""NEUTRE"" INDO-EUROPÉEN; NOTE; SUMMARY; MONOPHTHONGIZATION AS THE EASING OF AN ARTICULATORY BURDEN; REFERENCES; THE INDO-EUROPEAN VOWELS /a/ AND /o/ REVISITED; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; II. ANATOLIAN; LUVIO GEROGLIFICO MU-RU-WA-TÀ-ZA; NOTE; THE ANATOLIAN AND INDO-EUROPEAN FIRST PERSON PLURAL; 1.1. The Hitt. alternation was inherited from the parent language
2. Primary words and derivatives3. Concordance of formants; 3.1. Substantives.; 3.2. Adjectives; 3.3. Verbs; 3.4. Prefixes; 4. Numerical data; 5. Etymology; 6. Semantic evidence; 7. Language and thinking; NOTES; LITERATURE; IV. IRANIAN AND ARMENIAN; CALQUES IRANIENS EN ARMÉNIEN; NOTES; THE ARMENIAN SUFFIXES OF IRANIAN ORIGIN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DIE GOLDSCHMIEDE IM ACHAIMENIDISCHEN SUSA Zu einem alten Problem in der Inschrift DSf; ANMERKUNGEN; LITERATURNACHWEIS; SUMMARY; V. CELTIC; THE OLD IRISH IMPERFECT INDICATIVE; NOTES; REFERENCES; THE ETYMOLOGY OF OLD IRISH TORC 'BOAR'; FOOTNOTES
Summary This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is divided in 8 sections: I. Indo-European, II. Anatolian, III. Indic, IV. Iranian and Armenian, V. Celtic, VI. Germanic Languages, VII. Slavic and Albanian, VIII. Fennougrica and Altaica
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indo-European languages.
Ural-Altaic languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Indo-European languages
Ural-Altaic languages
Linguistica.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Szemerényi, Oswald, 1913-1996
Brogyanyi, Bela.
Lipp, Reiner
ISBN 9789027276988
9027276986
1283312972
9781283312974
9786613312976
6613312975