Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European which constrain the reconstructions and etymologies on which knowledge of the history and prehistory of the language family is based. The book makes an important contribution to the history of ancient languages.
Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European which constrain the reconstructions and etymologies on which knowledge of the history and prehistory of the language family is based. The book makes an important contribution to the history of ancient languages.
Philomen Probert is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She has written A new short guide to the accentuation of Ancient Greek (Duckworth 2003) and Ancient Greek accentuation: synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory (OUP 2006). Andreas Willi is Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written The Languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in classical Attic Greek (OUP 2003) and Sikelismos: Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (Basel, Schwabe 2008) and edited The Language of Greek Comedy (OUP 2002).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Philomen Probert and Andreas Willi: Introduction * Part I: Linguistics 'Laws' in Pre-modern Thought * 2: Paul Russell: Fern do frestol na. u. consaine: Perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish * Part II: Rules of Language Change and Linguistic Methology * 3: Don Ringe: Cladistic Principles and Linguistic Reality: The case of West Germanic * 4: Patrick Stiles: Older Runic Evidence for Northwest Germanic a -umlaut of u (and 'the converse of Polivanov's Law') * 5: Jane Stuart-Smith and Mario Cortina-Borja: A Law Unto Themselves? An Acoustic Phonetic Study of 'Tonal' Consonants in British Panjabi * 6: Wolfgang de Melo: Kurylowicz's First 'Law of Analogy' and the Development of Passive periphrases in Latin * 7: Anna Morpurgo Davies: Phonetic Laws, Relative and Absolute Chronology, Language Diffusion and the Drift: The loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC * Part III: Segmental Sound Laws: New proposals and reassessments * 8: Paul Elbourne: A Rule of Deaspiration in Ancient Greek * 9: Daniel Kölligan: Regular Sound Change and Word-initial in Armenian * 10: Nicholas Zair: Schrijver's Rules for British and Proto-Celtic *-o- and *-u- Before a Vowel * Part IV: Origins and Evolutions * 11: Philomen Probert: Origins of the Greek Law of Limitation * 12: Peter Barber: Re-examining Lindeman's Law * 13: Ranjan Sen: Exon's Law and the latin Syncopes * Part V: Systemic Consequences * 14: Elizabeth Tucket: Brugmann's Law: The problem of Indo-Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives * 15: Andreas Willi: Kiparsky's Rule, Thematic Nasal Presents and Athematic verba vocalia in Greek * Part VI: Synchronic Laws and Rules in Syntax and Sociolinguistics * 16: David Langslow: Praetor urbanus - urbanus praetor: Some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin * 17: Eleanor Dickey: The Rules of Politeness and Latin Request Formulae * References * General Index * Index of Words
* 1: Philomen Probert and Andreas Willi: Introduction * Part I: Linguistics 'Laws' in Pre-modern Thought * 2: Paul Russell: Fern do frestol na. u. consaine: Perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish * Part II: Rules of Language Change and Linguistic Methology * 3: Don Ringe: Cladistic Principles and Linguistic Reality: The case of West Germanic * 4: Patrick Stiles: Older Runic Evidence for Northwest Germanic a -umlaut of u (and 'the converse of Polivanov's Law') * 5: Jane Stuart-Smith and Mario Cortina-Borja: A Law Unto Themselves? An Acoustic Phonetic Study of 'Tonal' Consonants in British Panjabi * 6: Wolfgang de Melo: Kurylowicz's First 'Law of Analogy' and the Development of Passive periphrases in Latin * 7: Anna Morpurgo Davies: Phonetic Laws, Relative and Absolute Chronology, Language Diffusion and the Drift: The loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC * Part III: Segmental Sound Laws: New proposals and reassessments * 8: Paul Elbourne: A Rule of Deaspiration in Ancient Greek * 9: Daniel Kölligan: Regular Sound Change and Word-initial in Armenian * 10: Nicholas Zair: Schrijver's Rules for British and Proto-Celtic *-o- and *-u- Before a Vowel * Part IV: Origins and Evolutions * 11: Philomen Probert: Origins of the Greek Law of Limitation * 12: Peter Barber: Re-examining Lindeman's Law * 13: Ranjan Sen: Exon's Law and the latin Syncopes * Part V: Systemic Consequences * 14: Elizabeth Tucket: Brugmann's Law: The problem of Indo-Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives * 15: Andreas Willi: Kiparsky's Rule, Thematic Nasal Presents and Athematic verba vocalia in Greek * Part VI: Synchronic Laws and Rules in Syntax and Sociolinguistics * 16: David Langslow: Praetor urbanus - urbanus praetor: Some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin * 17: Eleanor Dickey: The Rules of Politeness and Latin Request Formulae * References * General Index * Index of Words
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