The Laws of Indo-European
This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete – thorough – exhaustive.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 35] 1985. xvii, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 March 2011
Published online on 18 March 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vi
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Contents | p. vii
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Abbreviations and acronyms; sigla | p. ix
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Introduction | p. 1
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Aitken’s law | p. 3
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Bartholomae’s law | p. 7
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Brugmann’s law | p. 13
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Caland’s law | p. 23
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Dolobko’s law | p. 29
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Dybo’s law | p. 31
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Ebeling’s law | p. 35
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Endzelin’s law | p. 37
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Fortunatov’s law I | p. 41
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Grassmann’s law | p. 47
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Grimm’s law | p. 63
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Hartmann’s law | p. 77
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Hirt’s law I | p. 81
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Hirt’s law | p. 85
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Hjemslev’s law | p. 89
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Holtzmann’s law | p. 93
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Illič-Svityč’s law | p. 103
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Lachmann’s law | p. 105
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Leskien’s law | p. 115
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Meillet’s law | p. 117
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Nieminen’s law | p. 119
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Notker’s law | p. 121
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Osthoff’s law | p. 127
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Palatals, the law of the | p. 133
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Pedersen’s law | p. 143
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Pedersen’s law | p. 147
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Saussure’s law | p. 149
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Šaxmatov’s law | p. 153
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Siebs’ law | p. 155
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Sievers’ law I | p. 159
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Sievers’ law II | p. 175
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Stang’s law | p. 179
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Streitberg’s law | p. 181
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Thurneysen’s law | p. 183
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Thurneysen and Havet, the law of | p. 193
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Van Wijk’s law | p. 197
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Vendryes’ law | p. 199
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Wackernagel’s law I | p. 217
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Wheeler’s law | p. 221
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Winter’s law | p. 225
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Appendix I: section A (minor laws) | p. 229
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Appendix I: section B (major tendencies) | p. 241
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Appendix II: the phonetic ‘new look’ of Indo-European consonants | p. 259
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Appendix III: general issues of Balto-Slavic accentology | p. 271
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Appendix IV: Dahl’s law of Bantu | p. 279
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Appendix V: Latin verbs in — iō | p. 283
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Index of authorities | p. 289
“Collinge has provided all students and scholars in the many branches of Indo-European studies with a useful reference tool and deserves our gratitude.”
Elmer H. Antonsen, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 1987
“[D]estined to become an indispensable tool on the desk of every Indo-Europeanist, Historical Linguist, and Linguistic Historian [...]. It records in admirably concise fashion the original content, subsequent revision and current scholarly assessment of those well-known rules in historical linguistics which are traditionally termed 'laws'.”
J. C. Wright & Th. Bynon, in Bull. SOAS, 1989
“Collinge dissipates the conventional myth of orthodoxy commonly associated with these laws: he shows how often these were formulated by their propounders as tentative generalizations, and how they were attacked or revised. As such, this book is a fitting tribute to two centuries of comparative scholarship — a story, then, of "how the field of Indo-European was won".”
P. Swiggers, in Leuvense Bijdragen, 1989
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