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Title Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics : in honor of William R. Schmalstieg / edited by Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xlvi, 302 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 254
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 254. 0304-0763
Contents Preface and acknowledgements / Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini -- William R. Schmalstieg: the man and the scholar / Philip Baldi -- Publications 1956-2004 / William R. Schmalsteig -- On the genitive with neuter participles and verbal nouns in Lithuanian / Vytautas Ambrazas -- "To be" or "not to be" in the Indo-European languages / Xaverio Ballester -- Lithuanian esmì and esù "I am": on the spread of the thematic present paradigm in Indo-European languages / Alfred Bammesberger -- On the subject of Old Prussian estate names / Grasilda Blažiené -- Indo-European *mem- and *tel- / Allan R. Bomhard -- Baltic palaeocomparativism and the idea that Prussian derives from Greek / Pietro U. Dini -- Phrase and idiom in Bretke's Old Lithuanian bible / Rainer Eckert -- Indo-European *peiḱ- and Baltic *peik- / Eric Hamp -- Proclisis in Greek / Henry M. Hoenigswald -- On the marking of predicate nominals in Baltic / Axel Holvoet -- Prussica 1-3 / Vyacheslav Ivanov -- Finnish terve "sound, healthy", Slavonic *s dorv "id.", and Lithuanian tervė́tis "recover, mend, convalesce" / Simas Karaliūnas -- Derivational morphology of the early Indo-European verb / Winfred P. Lehmann -- Irregular sound change due to frequency and the introduction by Szemerényi / Witold Mańczak -- Thoughts on declension in the Old Prussian catechism / Vytautas Mažiulis -- Problems in the reconstruction of certain endings of the Lithuanian optative / Guido Michelini -- "Rain" and "ant" (suge E 47 -- saugis E 791): how are their names connected in Old Prussian? / Anatolij Nepokupnyj -- Hans M. Schmidt-Wartenberg, a forgotten Balticist / Algirdas Sabaliauskas -- Neuter passive participle in modern Lithuanian / Lea Sawicki -- Observations on the paradigms of Lithuanian dė́ti "set, place, lay" and dúoti "give" / Wolfgang P. Schmid -- On the Indo-European origins of Greek 3rd pl. act. imperative -vtov: "new image" morphology and monophthongizations / Kenneth Shields, Jr. -- Old Prussian dīnkausegīsnan / Wojciech Smoczyński -- Double orthography in American Lithuanian newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century / Giedrius Subačius -- Hittite -za and reflexivity marking: some remarks / Pierre Swiggers -- Once more about the "North-Russian" [litva] and its mythologized image / V.N. Toporov -- Latvian brañgs: from Lithuanian, Couronian, or German? / Pēteris Vanags -- The Celtic language of the Iberian Peninsula / Francisco Villar -- "Old Prussian" in M. Prätorius' Deliciae Prussicae / Steven Young -- New data on resolving the puzzle of the Wolfenbüttel Postilla / Zigmas Zinkevičius
Summary This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"Publications, 1956-2004, William R. Schmalstieg": pages xxiii-xlvi
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Subject Schmalstieg, William R
SUBJECT Schmalstieg, William R. fast
Subject Baltic languages.
Indo-European languages.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Baltic Languages.
Baltic languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-europese talen.
Baltische talen.
Baltische Sprachen.
Indogermanische Sprachen.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Schmalstieg, William R
Baldi, Philip
Dini, Pietro U
LC no. 2004057687
ISBN 9789027285386
9027285381
1283092441
9781283092449
9786613092441
6613092444