Bono Homini Donum

Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)

Editors

Yoël L. Arbeitman

Allan R. Bomhard

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ISBN 9789027235077 | EUR 233.00 | USD 350.00

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The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.16

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Dedication	ix–xi
Table of contens	xiii–xvi
Section I: Kerns-Schwartz coda
On the Indo-european tense system J. Alexander Kerns and Benjamin Schwartz	3–13
Section II: Indo-european studies
The pre-History of Tocharian preterite participles Douglas Q. Adams	17–24
Rhotacism in hieroglyphic Luwian (with commentary by Allan R. Bomhard) Yoël L. Arbeitman and Gilbert-James Ayala	25–29
Anaphoriques du type νι νen hittite Françoise Bader	31–45
Intervocalic laryngeal in Gatha-Avestan Robert S.P. Beekes	47–64
Venetic revisited Madison S. Beeler	65–71
New linguistic data for Hispano-Celtic: An evaluation Cornelius Joseph Crowley	73–85
Levels of phonological restriction in Greek affixes Edwin D. Floyd	87–106
Some characteristics of modern colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg Byw) Robert A. Fowkes	107–118
Concerning the reply of Kerns and Schwarz to Austin John A.C. Greppin	119–126
Albanian edhe “and” Eric P. Hamp	127–131
“Decem” and “Taihyn” languages: An Indo-European isogloss Paul J. Hopper	133–142
Judeo-Italian lexical items collected by Zalman Yvoely George Jochnowitz	143–157
L’imaginaire en linguistique Guy Jucquois	159–178
The genitive singular ending in — syo: How an Indo-Europeanist works Winfred P. Lehmann	179–188
Etymological observations on bramling, bunting, fieldfare, godwit, and wren W.B. Lockwood	189–201
Noch einmal hethitisch ḫeu- “regen” Erich Neu	203–212
A functional viwew of word equations Christian Peeters	213–216
Greek nouns of the type of κνημΐς James W. Poultney	217–236
“Spider” and “mole” in hittite Jaan Puhvel	237–242
Ergatrivity in Indo-European William R. Schmalstieg	243–258
On Hittite-Luwian andIndo-European etymologies Vitalij Shevoroshkin	259–261
On Indo-European sigmatic verbal formations Kenneth Shields	263–279
Sprachverfall und Sprachtod besonders im Lichte indogermaischer Sprachen Oswald Szemerényi	281–310
Schwundstufige Formen von langvokalischen Verben im Altindischen Johann Tischler	311–323
Recherches comparatives sur le vocabolaire des langues anatoliennes A.J. van Windekens	325–344
Hittite ḫarziyalla- Calvert Watkins	345–348
Section III: Typological studies and distant linguistic relationship
Indo-European and Afroasiatic: New evidence for the connetction Allan R. Bomhard	351–474
Typological paralells between Proto-Indo-European and the northwest Cuacasian languages John Colarusso	475–557
Volume II
Typology versus reconstruction George Dunkel	559–569
Language typology and language universals and their implications for the reconstruction of the Indo- European stop system Thomas V. Gamkrelidze	571–609
Section IV: Afroasiatic studies
An inquiry into the formation of the Middle Aramaic dialects Daniel Boyarin	613–649
Les niveaux de langue dans la poésie populaire arabe du maghreb Jaques Grand’Henry	651–658
Coptic double consonants Carleton T. Hodge	659–664
Diglossia in ancient Hebrew as revealed through compound verbs Gary Rendsburg	665–677
The structure and inflexion of the verb in the Semito-Mamitic grammar Otto Rössler	679–748
Section V: Cretan studies
Santas and Kupapa on Crete Jon-Christian Billigmeier	751–760
The Semitic language of Minoan Crete Cyrus H. Gordon	761–782
The Phaistos disk, again? Benjamin Schwartz	783–799
Section VI: Varia
La scomparsa del “passato remoto” in romanzo e in tedesco Giuliano Bonfante	803–806
Principles of stylistic analysis Giorgio Buccellati	807–836
“Rekomponierte” Lehnbildungen Roberto Gusmani	837–843
Altaic origins of the Japanese verb classes Roy Andrew Miller	845–880
Can graphemic change cause phonemic change? Edgar C. Polomé	881–888
The Hittite is my mother: An Anatolean approach to Gennesis 23 (ex Indo-Europea lux) Yoël L. Arbeitman	889–1026
Index Verborum	1027–1076

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Costello, John R.

1999. Robert A. Fowkes, 1913–1998. <i>WORD</i> 50:3 ► pp. 365 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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