Language in Time and Space

by Bauer, Brigitte L. M.; Pinault, Georges-Jean

• ISBN13: 9783110176483
• ISBN10: 3110176483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.

Table of Contents

Werner Winter: Publications 1949--2003	ix
Introduction: Werner Winter, ad multos annos	xxiii
Patterns of stress and rhythm in Tocharian B prosody	1	(12)
Douglas Q. Adams
Old Irish masu `if is' and similar forms	13	(6)
Anders Ahlqvist
On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts	19	(16)
Henning Andersen
A concept of truth for linguistic semantics	35	(28)
Jerzy Banczerowski
Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian B -e- presents without initial palatalization	63	(14)
Gerd Carling
Some thoughts on `Universals'	77	(10)
N. E. Collinge
Latin static morphology and paradigm families	87	(14)
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan	101	(20)
George van Driem
Some taboo-words in Iranian languages of Central Asia	121	(10)
Dzoj (Joy) I. Edelman
Apposition and word-order typology in Indo-European	131	(22)
Olav Hackstein
Reading Moliere's The Learned Ladies -- remarks on (im)politeness	153	(14)
Francoise Hammer
Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism? Lessons from the past for the present and the future	167	(22)
Hans Henrich Hock
On the origin of Tocharian terms for Grain	189	(22)
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
The Hittite reflexive construction in a typological perspective	211	(22)
Folke Josephson
Praise and Honor (Gothic hazjan, Old English hergan, and Russian cest')	233	(8)
Yuri Kleiner
The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite	241	(4)
Frederik Kortlandt
Realism in Indo-European Linguistics	245	(12)
Winfred P. Lehmann
Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian	257	(14)
Alexander Lubotsky
Sergei Starostin
Categorizing the Japanese lexicon. A proposal with a background	271	(16)
Alfred F. Majewicz
Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal	287	(6)
Boyd Michailovsky
`But' without switch-reference	293	(20)
Pamela Munro
Fresh shoots from a vigourous stem: IE *uih1ro-	313	(18)
Birgit Anette Olsen
On the tracks of the Tocharian Guru	331	(16)
Georges-Jean Pinault
Eventide in Hatti-land	347	(4)
Jaan Puhvel
An integrated view on ablaut and accent in Indo-European	351	(8)
Jens Elmegard Rasmussen
An early rule of syncope in Tocharian	359	(4)
Don Ringe
The Latin imperfect in -ba-, the Proto-Indo-European root *bhueh2- and full grade I forms from set-roots with full grade II	363	(22)
Helmut Rix
Conceptualization of agency in contemporary Polish	385	(20)
Elzbieta Tabakowska
Ouvrier, Arbeiter, workman, rabocij, obrero, operaio	405	(14)
Wolfgang Viereck
Matthias Goldammer
Classical Armenian HAGAG `breath' and OGEM `to speak'	419	(10)
Jos J. S. Weitenberg
Index	429	(10)
Index of examples	439	(2)
Tabula Gratulatoria	441