Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics

In honor of William R. Schmalstieg

Editors

Philip Baldi

| Penn State University

Pietro U. Dini

| University of Pisa

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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 United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.254

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Philip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini	ix
William R. Schmalstieg: The Man and the Scholar Philip Baldi	xi
Publications 1956–2004 William R. Schmalstieg	xxiii
On the Genitive with Neuter Participles and Verbal Nouns in Lithuanian Vytautus Ambrazas	1
“To Be” or “Not To Be” in the Indo-European Languages Xaverio Ballester	7
Lithuanian esmí and esú “I am”: On the Spread of the Thematic Present in Indo-European Languages Alfred Bammesberger	19
On the Subject of Old Prussian Estate Names Grasilda Blažienė	27
Indo-European *men- and *tel- Allan R. Bomhard	33
Baltic Palaeocomparativism and the Idea That Prussian Derives from Greek Pietro U. Dini	37
Phrase and Idiom in Bretke’s Old Lithuanian Bible Rainer Eckert	51
Indo-European *peiḱ- and *peik- Eric P. Hamp	63
Proclisis in Greek Henry M. Hoenigswald	67
On the Marking of Predicate Nominals in Baltic Axel Holvoet	75
Prussica 1-3 Vyacheslav Ivanov	91
Finnish terve “sound, healthy”, Slavonic sъdorvъ “id.”, and Lithuanian tervė́tis* “recover, mend, convalesce” Simas Karaliūnas	103
Derivational Morphology of the Early Indo-European Verb Winfred P. Lehmann	113
Irregular Sound Change Due to Frequency and the Introduction by Szemerényi Witold Mańczak	125
Thoughts on Declension in the Old Prussian Catechism Vytautas Mažiulis	135
Problems in the Reconstruction of Certain Endings of the Lithuanian Optative Guido Michelini	137
“Rain” and “ant”: How Are Their Names Connected in Old Prussian? (suge E 47 – saugis E 791) Anatolij Nepokupnyj	143
Hans M. Schmidt-Wartenberg, A Forgotten Balticist Algirdas Sabaliauskas	153
Neuter Passive Participle in Modern Lithuanian Lea Sawicki	157
Observations on the Paradigms of Lithuanian dė́ti “set, place, lay” and dúoti “give” Wolfgang P. Schmid	165
On the Indo-European Origins of Greek 3rd Pl. Act.Imperative -ντον: “New Image” Morphology and Monophthongizations Kenneth Shields	173
Old Prussian dīnkausegīsnan Wojciech Smoczyński	185
Double Orthography in American Lithuanian Newspapers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Giedrius Subačius	189
Hittite -za and Reflexivity Marking: Some Remarks Pierre Swiggers	203
Once More about the “North-Russian” литва and its Mythologized Image V.N. Toporov	209
Latvian braŋgs : From Lithuanian, Couronian, or German? Pēteris Vanags	231
The Celtic Language of the Iberian Peninsula Francisco Villar	243
“Old Prussian” in M. Prätorius‘ Delicae Prussicae Steven Young	275
New Data on Resolving the Puzzle of the Wolfenbüttel Postilla Zigmas Zinkevičius	285
Index	291

“The volume refers to a very heterogeneous readership with very different theoretical and methodological expectations. This taken into consideration, its value consists not only in the scrupulous work invested into most of the papers reviewed here, and in original threads of argumentation in some of the papers, but it is amplified by the nice way of editing.”

Björn Wiemer, Universität Konstanz, in STUF 60:3 (2007)

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Balto-Slavic linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2004057687 | Marc record