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Indo-European Perspectives J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Indo-European Perspectives By J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Indo-European Perspectives by J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)


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Brings together the work by 42 of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. This work shows the breadth and liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient world.

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Indo-European Perspectives: Studies In Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies by J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)

This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient world. The volume is a tribute to Anna Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement as the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. The book's six parts are concerned with the early history of Indo-European (Part I); language use, variation, and change in ancient Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European languages of Western Europe, including Latin, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the ancient Indo-Iranian and Tocharian languages (Part V); and the history of Indo-European linguistics (Part VI). Indo-European Perspectives will interest scholars and students of Indo-European philology, historical linguistics, classics, and the history of the ancient world.

Indo-European Perspectives Reviews

even the most erudite specialist -- for example, Anna Morpurgo Davies herself -- will find the book worth reading. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
IEP is a good introduction to current research in Indo-European studies and would be valuable reading for students beginning to do research. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
...a fine collection of essays by some of the leading Indo-Europeanists * Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1&2 *

About J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)

J. H. W. Penney teaches comparative philology in the University of Oxford, where he is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and a Fellow of Wolfson College. His research interests include Indo-European phonology and morphology, the languages of Pre-Roman Italy, and Tocharian.

Table of Contents

PART I ; INDO-EUROPEAN ; 1. Il perfetto indoeuropeo tra endomorfismo e esomorfismo ; 2. Particles and Personal Pronouns: Inclusive *me and Exclusive *we ; 3. Etymology and History: For a Study of 'Medical Language' in Indo-European ; 4. The Stative Value of the PIE Verbal Suffix *-eh1- ; 5. The Third Donkey. Origin Legends and Some Hidden Indo-European Themes ; PART II ; GREEK ; 6. Spoken Language and Written Text: The Case of alloeidea (Hom. Od. 13.194) ; 7. Social Dialect in Attica ; 8. The Attitude of the Athenian StateTowards the Attic Dialect in the Classical Era ; 9. Rules Without Reasons? Words for Children in Papyrus Letters ; 10. Langage de femmes et d'hommes en grec ancien: l'exemple de Lysistrata ; 11. Die Tmesis bei Homer und auf den mykenischen Linear B-Tafeln - ein chronologisches Paradox? ; 12. Hellespontos ; 13. Aspect and Verbs of Movement in the History of Greek: Why Pericles Could "Walk into Town" but Karamanlis Could Not ; 14. The "Swimming Duck" in Greek and Hittite ; 15. Names in -e and -e-u in Mycenaean Greek ; 16. Sella, subsellium, meretrix: sonantes voyelles et "effet Saussure" en grec ancien ; 17. Zu griechisch turo 'Kaese' ; 18. Two Mycenaean Problems ; 19. On Some Greek nt-Formations ; 20. Accentuation in Old Attic, Later Attic and Attic ; 21. Indo-European *(s)mer- in Greek and Celtic ; 22. Khai re kai piei eu' ; 23. Flowing Riches: Greek aphenos and Indo-European Streams ; PART III ; ANATOLIAN ; 24. Some Problems in Anatolian Phonology and Etymology ; 25. The Stag-God of the Countryside and Related Problems ; 26. A Luwian Dedication ; 27. Das Wort fur "Jahr" und hieroglyphisch-luwisch yari- "sich ausdehnen" ; 28. Dal nome comune al nome divino, proprio e locale: il caso di tasku- in anatolico ; PART IV ; WESTERN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ; 29. The Word-Order Pattern magna cum laude in Latin and Sabellian ; 30. Plus ca change ... : Lachmann's Law in Latin ; 31. Old English mapelian, maeplan, maelan ; 32. I nomi delle figure dei miti greci nelle lingue dell'Italia arcaica. The first traces of Achilles and Hercules in Latin ; 33. Old Welsh Dinacat, Cunedag, Tutagual: Fossilised Phonology in Brittonic Personal Names ; 34. Consumer Issues: Beowulf 3115a and Germanic "Bison" ; 35. Die hispanische Heerschau des Silius Italicus ; PART V ; INDO-IRANIAN AND TOCHARIAN ; 36. On Vedic Suppletion: das and vidh ; 37. Tocharian B past and its Vocalism ; 38. Promising Perspective or Dead End? The Issue of Metrical Passages in the Old Persian Inscriptions ; 39. The Parthian Abstract Suffix -yft ; 40. Denominative Verbs in Avestan: Derivatives from Thematic Stems ; PART VI ; HISTORY OF INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS ; 41. The Celtic Studies of Lorenzo Hervas in the Context of the Linguistics of his Time ; 42. Johannes Schmidt's Academic Career and his Letters to August Schleicher

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Indo-European Perspectives: Studies In Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies by J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)
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2004-10-14
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