Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics : in honor of William R. Schmalstieg / / edited by Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xlvi, 302 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 491/.9
• Soggetto topico: Baltic languages; Indo-European languages
• Altri autori: SchmalstiegWilliam R BaldiPhilip DiniPietro U
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: STUDIES IN BALTIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- WILLIAM R SCHMALSTIEG: THE MAN AND THE SCHOLAR -- PUBLICATIONS 1956-2004 -- ON THE GENITIVE WITH NEUTER PARTICIPLES AND VERBAL NOUNS IN LITHUANIAN -- REFERENCES -- TO BE" OR "NOT TO BE" IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES -- A verb not for all seasons -- The suppletion strategies -- The irregularity strategies: The zero copula -- A flexible concept (if a concept) as a purely philosophical matter -- The Indo-European case -- REFERENCES -- LITHUANIAN esmì AND esù "I AM" ON THE SPREAD OF THE THEMATIC PRESENT PARADIGMIN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES -- REFERENCES -- ON THE SUBJECT OF OLD PRUSSIAN ESTATE NAMES -- REFERENCES -- INDO-EUROPEAN *MEN- AND *TBL- -- REFERENCES -- BALTIC PALAEOCOMPARATIVISM AND THE IDEA THAT PRUSSIAN DERIVES FROM GREEK -- Introduction -- Jan Dlugosz and the emergence of a Greek theory of Prussian -- Willichius's best appraisal of the Greek theory of Prussian -- M. Cromer's arguments against Długosz's linguistic ideas -- Minor reception of the Greek theory in Western Europe -- Hartknoch and the seventeenth-century reaction against the Greek theory -- A lesser-known case of seventeenth-century reaction: ML Prätorius -- Palaeocomparativistic Prussian-Greek comparisons -- Later echoes of the Greek theory in G, Chr. Pisanski's works -- The Greek theory of Prussian within Baltic palaeocomparativism -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- PHRASE AND IDIOM IN BRETKE'S OLD LITHUANIAN BIBLE -- A. Old Lithuanian po akim with the possible variant po akiu -- B. On the rendition of Job 16:10 and Exod 15:9 in Luther, Bretke, and the Quandt Bible and elsewhere -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INDO-EUROPEAN *peik- AND BALTIC *peik- -- REFERENCES -- PROCLISIS IN GREEK -- REFERENCES. ; ON THE MARKING OF PREDICATE NOMINALS IN BALTIC -- 1. Predicative instrumentais in Baltic -- 2. The expansion of the predicative instrumental as a syntactic default -- 3. Syntactically free uses of the predicative instrumental -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- PRUSSICA 1-3 -- 1. A Baltic View of ūniversum -- 2. The possible origin of the OPr. golimban "blue" and the Slavic name of "pigeon -- 3. Old Prussian prassan "millef", Slavic *proso "millet", Tocharian B proks-a "grain -- REFERENCES -- Addendum. On Techarian words for "forest -- FINNISH terve "SOUND, HEALTHY", SLAVONIC *sodorvo "ID.", ANDLITHUANIAN tervétis "RECOVER, MEND, CONVALESCE -- REFERENCES -- DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE EARLY INDO-EUROPEAN VERB -- 1. Pre-Indo-Eurepean as an active language -- 2. The addition of determinatives to roots in late Pre-Indo-European -- 3. The -k/g- determinative -- 4. The *-t/d- determinative -- 5. The *-s- determinative -- 6. The resonants -- 7. The n-infix -- 8. The*n -infix verbs in Proto-Indo-European and the dialects -- 9. The general pattern of derivational development in Indo-European -- REFERENCES -- IRREGULAR SOUND CHANGE DUE TO FREQUENCY AND THE INTRODUCTION BY SZEMERÉNYI -- REFERENCES -- THOUGHTS ON DECLENSION IN THE OLD PRUSSIAN CATECHISM -- REFERENCES -- PROBLEMS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN ENDINGS OF THE LITHUANIAN OPTATIVE -- REFERENCES -- RAIN" AND "ANT" (SUGE E 47 - SAUGIS E 791): HOW ARE THEIR NAMES CONNECTED IN OLD PRUSSIAN? -- LITERATURE AND SOURCES -- HANS M. SCHMIDT-WARTENBERG, A FORGOTTEN BALTICIST -- Additional information -- NEUTER PASSIVE PARTICIPLE IN MODEEN LITHUANIAN -- REFERENCES -- OBSERVATIONS ON THE PARADIGMS OF LITHUANIAN deti "SET, PLACE, LAY" AND dúoti "GIVE -- REFERENCES -- ON THE INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF GREEK 3RD PL, ACT, IMPERATIVE -vτov "NEW IMAGE" MORPHOLOGY AND MONOPHTHONGIZATIONS -- REFERENCES. ; OLD PRUSSIAN dīnkausegīsnan -- EEFEEENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS FOR CITED TEXTS -- DOUBLE ORTHOGRAPHY IN AMERICAN LITHUANIAN NEWSPAPERS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 1. Letters ‹č ›, ‹š› -- 2. Theoretical acceptance of ‹č›, ‹š› in 1898-1899 -- 3. Practical efforts to implement the letters ‹č› and ‹š› -- 4. Deviations from the double orthography -- REFERENCES -- HITTITE-za AND REFLEXIVITY MARKING: SOME REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- ONCE MOREABOUT THE "NORTH-RUSSIAN" JINTBA AND ITS MYTHOLOGIZED IMAGE -- REFERENCES -- LATVIAN BRAÑGS: FROM LITHUANIAN, COURONIAN, OE GEEMAN? -- REFERENCES -- THE CELTIC LANGUAGE OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA -- Study of the Data -- Summary and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- OLD PRUSSIAN" IN M. PRÄTORIUS' DELICIAE PRUSSICAE -- REFERENCES -- NEW DATA ON RESOLVING THE PUZZLE OF THE WOLFENBÜTTEL POSTILLA -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition.
• Titolo autorizzato: Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics
• ISBN: 1-283-09244-1; 9786613092441; 90-272-8538-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807390503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 254.