Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Preface......Page 10
Two Notes from OUP......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
I: INDO-EUROPEAN......Page 22
1. Il perfetto indoeuropeo tra endomorfismo ed esomorfismo......Page 24
2. Particles and Personal Pronouns: Inclusive *me and Exclusive *ue......Page 39
3. Etymology and History: For a Study of ‘Medical Language’ in Indo-European......Page 51
4. The Stative Value of the PIE Verbal Suffix *-éh[sub(1)]-......Page 69
5. The Third Donkey: Origin Legends and Some Hidden Indo-European Themes......Page 86
II: GREEK......Page 102
6. Spoken Language and Written Text: The Case of [omitted] (Hom. Od.13.194)......Page 104
7. Social Dialect in Attica......Page 116
8. The Attitude of the Athenian State towards the Attic Dialect in the Classical Era......Page 130
9. Rules without Reasons? Words for Children in Papyrus Letters......Page 140
10. Langage de femmes et d’hommes en grec ancien: l’exemple de Lysistrata......Page 152
11. Die Tmesis bei Homer und auf den mykenischen Linear B-Tafeln: ein chronologisches Paradox?......Page 167
12. 'E[omitted]......Page 200
13. Aspect and Verbs of Movement in the History of Greek: Why Pericles Could ‘Walk into Town’ but Karamanlis Could Not......Page 203
14. The ‘Swimming Duck’ in Greek and Hittite......Page 216
15. Names in -e and -e-u in Mycenaean Greek......Page 238
16. Sella, subsellium, meretrix: sonantes-voyelles et ‘effet Saussure’ en grec ancien......Page 257
17. Zu griechisch [omitted] 'Käse'......Page 275
18. Two Mycenaean Problems......Page 279
19. On Some Greek nt-Formations......Page 287
20. Accentuation in Old Attic, Later Attic, and Attic......Page 298
21. Indo-European *(s)mer- in Greek and Celtic......Page 313
22. X[omitted] (AVI 2)......Page 321
23. Flowing Riches: Greek [omitted] and Indo-European Streams......Page 344
III: ANATOLIAN......Page 360
24. Some Problems in Anatolian Phonology and Etymology......Page 362
25. The Stag-God of the Countryside and Related Problems......Page 376
26. A Luwian Dedication......Page 391
27. Das Wort für ‘Jahr’ und hieroglyphen-luwisch yari- ‘sich ausdehnen’......Page 401
28. Dal nome comune al nome divino, proprio e locale: il caso di tasku- in anatolico......Page 405
IV: WESTERN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES......Page 410
29. The Word-Order Pattern magna cum laude in Latin and Sabellian......Page 412
30. Plus ça change…: Lachmann’s Law in Latin......Page 426
31. Old English mapelian, mæplan, mælan......Page 438
32. I nomi delle figure dei miti greci nelle lingue dell’Italia arcaica. The First Traces of Achilles and Hercules in Latin......Page 457
33. Old Welsh Dinacat, Cunedag, Tutagual: Fossilized Phonology in Brittonic Personal Names......Page 468
34. Consumer Issues: Beowulf 3115a and Germanic ‘Bison’......Page 482
35. Die hispanische Heerschau des Silius Italicus......Page 495
V: INDO-IRANIAN AND TOCHARIAN......Page 506
36. On Vedic Suppletion: dāś and vidh......Page 508
37. Tocharian B päst and its Vocalism......Page 535
38. Promising Perspective or Dead End? The Issue of Metrical Passages in the Old Persian Inscriptions......Page 544
39. The Parthian Abstract Suffix -yft......Page 560
40. Denominative Verbs in Avestan: Derivatives from Thematic Stems......Page 569
VI: HISTORY OF INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS......Page 584
41. The Celtic Studies of Lorenzo Hervás in the Context of the Linguistics of his Time......Page 586
42. Johannes Schmidt’s Academic Career and his Letters to August Schleicher......Page 598
Major Publications on Philology and Linguistics......Page 608
Select Index of Words Discussed......Page 615