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This festschrift, in honour of the renowned Indo-Europeanist Jay Jasanoff, presents studies on topics ranging from Indo-European verbal morphology to Australian paleo linguistics. It contains contributions by such distinguished colleagues as Ives Goddard, Martin Peters, Georges-Jean Pinault, P. Oktor Skjærv Brent Vine, and Calvert Watkins.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface.............................................................................................................................. vii

Bibliography of Brent Vine............................................................................................ ix

List of Contributors........................................................................................................ xix

Alain Blanc, Le toponyme grec Méthônê/Mêthônê: Localisations, étymologie, métrique .....................

A. C. Cassio, Old Ablatives, Homeric τW, and Helen’s Disenchantment (Iliad .–) ............

Adam Alvah Catt, Tocharian B a¯rt(t)e and Tocharian A a¯rtak ..................................

Joseph F. Eska and Jean-François Mondon, Phonological Spreading, Voice- Onset Delay, or Phonetic Noise? Orthographic<φσ> and<χσ> in Greek Epichoric Inscriptions ..............................................................

José Luis García Ramón, Infinitive As Complement of va´s in the Rig Veda .....................................

David M. Goldstein, Ennius Annales Sk ( V) and the History of Latin atque ................

Dieter Gunkel, Localizational Evidence for the Restoration of Rigvedic *mimihí ‘measure’ .........

Olav Hackstein, Allative Formations: Homeric Greek aλλυδις aλλη, Old Latin alii alia¯, and Congeners ......

Mark Hale, Some Notes on the Latin Interrogative Enclitic ne .............................

Stephanie W. Jamison, Another Sacrificed Wife: Euripides’ Alcestis Viewed from India ...............

Jay H. Jasanoff, Palatable Thorns...............................................................................

Ronald I. Kim, The Derivational History of Tocharian B war, A wär ‘water’.......

Jared S. Klein, Semantics and Discourse: On Adversative Conjunction in Gothic ……………………

Martin Joachim Kümmel, Zur Akzentuierung der Denominativa im Indogermanischen

Charles de Lamberterie, Le verbe keal « vivre » de l’arménien classique...........................

Claire Le Feuvre, Αiτις δN περιπλοµiνου eνιαυτοD (Hesiod Op. ): On the Formation of eνιαυτoς ...

Melanie Malzahn, A Short History of Latin Presents in Long -e............................................

Richard P. Martin, Achilles Without End...................................................................................

H. Craig Melchert, Empire Luvian *-wa/i-ní and Related Problems................................

Angelo O. Mercado, On the Problem of Homeric Greek aµφιφορεuς....................................

Sergio Neri, Genitiv und Lokativ: Zur Herkunft der urindogermanischen Genitivendung*-sio ...........

Alexander Nikolaev, Greek θοoς ‘sharp’, Hittite tuhš- ‘to cut’..................................................

Kanehiro Nishimura, The hum¯ı ˘-Rule in Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alan J. Nussbaum, Limning Some Limbs: A Note on Greek µηρoς ‘thigh’ and Its Relatives ......

Birgit Anette Olsen, What Happened to the Middle Participle in Latin?.....................

Martin Peters, Felix Solmsen grammatikotatos kai philologikotatos....................................

Daniel Petit, On the Prehistory of Lithuanian patogùs and atogùs...................................

Moss Pike, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria . ....................................................................................

Paolo Poccetti, The -t¯od Imperative in Italic Languages: Comparative and Typological Insights ......

Philomen Probert, Are Correlative Pronouns Always Overt in Lydian?.......................

Jeremy Rau, The Genetic Subgrouping of the Ancient Greek Dialects: Achaean ..................

Don Ringe, Indicative–Subjunctive Syncretism in West Germanic...............................

Giovanna Rocca, Flamen sume samentum............................................................................

Peter Schrijver, British Celtic Light on the Latin Alternation of -l- and -ll- in Words of the Type cam¯elus, camellus................................................................................................

Aurelijus Viju¯nas, The Mechanism for Rhotacism Revisited: A Typological Parallel from East Asia ...

Rex Wallace, A Preview of the Inscribed Stele of Vicchio...............................................

Michael Weiss, Limited Latin Grassmann’s Law: Do We Need It?................................

Andreas Willi, Mars Gradivus.............................................................................................

Olga T. Yokoyama, Control in Dangling Participles.......................................................

Kazuhiko Yoshida, On the Prehistory of Hittite aušta and maušta................................

Index Verborum......................................................................................................................

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      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9780974792736, 978-0974792736
      ISBN10: 097479273X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This festschrift, in honour of the renowned Indo-Europeanist Jay Jasanoff, presents studies on topics ranging from Indo-European verbal morphology to Australian paleo linguistics. It contains contributions by such distinguished colleagues as Ives Goddard, Martin Peters, Georges-Jean Pinault, P. Oktor Skjærv Brent Vine, and Calvert Watkins.

      Table of Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Preface.............................................................................................................................. vii

      Bibliography of Brent Vine............................................................................................ ix

      List of Contributors........................................................................................................ xix

      Alain Blanc, Le toponyme grec Méthônê/Mêthônê: Localisations, étymologie, métrique .....................

      A. C. Cassio, Old Ablatives, Homeric τW, and Helen’s Disenchantment (Iliad .–) ............

      Adam Alvah Catt, Tocharian B a¯rt(t)e and Tocharian A a¯rtak ..................................

      Joseph F. Eska and Jean-François Mondon, Phonological Spreading, Voice- Onset Delay, or Phonetic Noise? Orthographic<φσ> and<χσ> in Greek Epichoric Inscriptions ..............................................................

      José Luis García Ramón, Infinitive As Complement of va´s in the Rig Veda .....................................

      David M. Goldstein, Ennius Annales Sk ( V) and the History of Latin atque ................

      Dieter Gunkel, Localizational Evidence for the Restoration of Rigvedic *mimihí ‘measure’ .........

      Olav Hackstein, Allative Formations: Homeric Greek aλλυδις aλλη, Old Latin alii alia¯, and Congeners ......

      Mark Hale, Some Notes on the Latin Interrogative Enclitic ne .............................

      Stephanie W. Jamison, Another Sacrificed Wife: Euripides’ Alcestis Viewed from India ...............

      Jay H. Jasanoff, Palatable Thorns...............................................................................

      Ronald I. Kim, The Derivational History of Tocharian B war, A wär ‘water’.......

      Jared S. Klein, Semantics and Discourse: On Adversative Conjunction in Gothic ……………………

      Martin Joachim Kümmel, Zur Akzentuierung der Denominativa im Indogermanischen

      Charles de Lamberterie, Le verbe keal « vivre » de l’arménien classique...........................

      Claire Le Feuvre, Αiτις δN περιπλοµiνου eνιαυτοD (Hesiod Op. ): On the Formation of eνιαυτoς ...

      Melanie Malzahn, A Short History of Latin Presents in Long -e............................................

      Richard P. Martin, Achilles Without End...................................................................................

      H. Craig Melchert, Empire Luvian *-wa/i-ní and Related Problems................................

      Angelo O. Mercado, On the Problem of Homeric Greek aµφιφορεuς....................................

      Sergio Neri, Genitiv und Lokativ: Zur Herkunft der urindogermanischen Genitivendung*-sio ...........

      Alexander Nikolaev, Greek θοoς ‘sharp’, Hittite tuhš- ‘to cut’..................................................

      Kanehiro Nishimura, The hum¯ı ˘-Rule in Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      Alan J. Nussbaum, Limning Some Limbs: A Note on Greek µηρoς ‘thigh’ and Its Relatives ......

      Birgit Anette Olsen, What Happened to the Middle Participle in Latin?.....................

      Martin Peters, Felix Solmsen grammatikotatos kai philologikotatos....................................

      Daniel Petit, On the Prehistory of Lithuanian patogùs and atogùs...................................

      Moss Pike, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria . ....................................................................................

      Paolo Poccetti, The -t¯od Imperative in Italic Languages: Comparative and Typological Insights ......

      Philomen Probert, Are Correlative Pronouns Always Overt in Lydian?.......................

      Jeremy Rau, The Genetic Subgrouping of the Ancient Greek Dialects: Achaean ..................

      Don Ringe, Indicative–Subjunctive Syncretism in West Germanic...............................

      Giovanna Rocca, Flamen sume samentum............................................................................

      Peter Schrijver, British Celtic Light on the Latin Alternation of -l- and -ll- in Words of the Type cam¯elus, camellus................................................................................................

      Aurelijus Viju¯nas, The Mechanism for Rhotacism Revisited: A Typological Parallel from East Asia ...

      Rex Wallace, A Preview of the Inscribed Stele of Vicchio...............................................

      Michael Weiss, Limited Latin Grassmann’s Law: Do We Need It?................................

      Andreas Willi, Mars Gradivus.............................................................................................

      Olga T. Yokoyama, Control in Dangling Participles.......................................................

      Kazuhiko Yoshida, On the Prehistory of Hittite aušta and maušta................................

      Index Verborum......................................................................................................................

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