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Intro -- Foreword -- Bibliography of the Publications of Don Ringe -- Monographs -- Articles -- Technical Report -- Reviews -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Subgrouping and Phylogeny -- 1: The Continental Celtic Dialect Continuum -- 1 Prelude -- 2 Dialect Continua and Dialect Areas -- 3 Dialect Continua and Dialect Areas in Diachronic Perspective -- 4 The Continental Celtic Dialect Continuum -- 5 Three examples -- 6 Summing Up -- References -- 2: On the Phylogenetic Status of East Germanic -- 1 Introduction: Germanic and East Germanic -- 2 Methodological Concerns -- 3 What Is East Germanic? -- 4 First Comparison. Bible Gothic and Crimean Gothic -- 5 Vandalic -- 6 Burgundian -- 7 Conclusion: Doing Away with 'East Germanic' -- References -- 3: Progress on Constructing Phylogenetic Networks for Languages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mathematical Foundations -- 3 Basic Terminology -- 4 Constructing the Unrooted Network Topology -- 4.1 Quartet Tree Calculator (QTC). Constructing Q(Nr) -- 4.2 Quartet-Based Topology Estimator -- 4.3 QBTE: Constructing the Unrooted Network Topology -- 4.4 Root-Network: Rooting an Unrooted Level-1 Network -- 5 Practical Considerations -- 5.1 Genetic Tree Estimation (Heuristic) -- 6 Future Work -- 7 Appendix -- References -- Part II: Linguistic Reconstruction -- 4: Rethinking Stang's Law, with a Note on Gk. πóτνια -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Other Accusatives -- 3 Limited SLH -- 4 πότνια vs. δέσποινα -- References -- 5: The Sources of the *-ono- 'god' Suffix -- 1 n-stem -- 2 o-stem -- 3 ā-stem -- 4 *-ono-/ā made to a consonant stem -- 5 i-stem -- 6 u-stem -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 6: The Final Glottal Stop of the Kuṛux Verb Bases -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Functions of the Kuṛux Base-final ʔ in Comparison with Malto -- 2.1 Denominative Verbs with ʔ.
2.2 ʔ in Verbs Borrowed from Indo-Aryan -- 2.3 Kur ̣ux ʔ with Transitivizing Function -- 3 Origins of the Kur ̣ux Base-final ʔ -- 3.1 Etymological ʔ -- 3.2 Verb Bases of the Pattern Kuṛux ʔ / c vs. Malto ∅ / c -- 3.3 Kuṛux ʔ / ∅ by Double Marking -- 3.4 Kuṛux Verbs with ʔ and Geminating Past -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 7: Very Old Latin -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Is a Division Justified? -- 3 What Linguistic Features Distinguish the First from the Second Period? -- 3.1 Rhotacism -- 3.2 The Loss of s Before a Voiced Consonant with Compensatory Lengthening -- 3.2.1 Probably Genuine -- 3.2.2 Potentially Genuine -- 3.2.3 Probably Pseudo-archaisms -- 3.2.4 Definitely Pseudo-archaisms -- 3.3 l-backing -- 3.4 a-weakening -- 4 The End of the First Period of Latin -- 5 Naming the First Period -- References -- Part III: Theoretical Approaches to Language Change -- 8: Iceberg Phenomena and Synchronic Rules -- 1 Linguistic Diachrony Is Not Confined to History. Language Acquisition and Long-Term Inheritance -- 2 Linguistic Heterochrony. Fifth-Pocket and Iceberg Phenomena -- 2.1 Linguistic Fifth-Pocket Phenomena and Elsewhere Rules -- 2.2 Linguistic Iceberg Phenomena and Stranded Rules -- 3 Gradience and Stranded Rules as Iceberg Phenomena -- 3.1 Synchronic Gradience Effects as Iceberg Phenomena: Thin, Utter, and Away -- 3.2 More Linguistic Iceberg Phenomena and Stranded Rules. German Predicative Voll 'Full (of)' and Voller 'Full of, Fraught With' -- 3.2.1 Synchronic Analysis. Adjective or Preposition? -- 3.2.1.1 German Voller as Indeclinable Predicative Adjective -- 3.2.1.2 Germ. Voller as Preposition -- 3.2.1.3 Synchronic Arguments for Voller as Adjective -- 3.2.2 Germ. Voller as an Iceberg Phenomenon -- 4 Conclusion and Prospects -- References.
9: Forced to Force? Remarks on the Architecture of the Left Periphery of Early Irish and Absolute/Conjunct Morphology -- 1 What's Going on in the Left Periphery of Early Irish? -- 2 Previous Accounts -- 3 Distribution of Absolute Versus Conjunct -- 4 Distributed Morphology and Locality -- 5 The Old Irish Verb Complex -- 6 Conditioning of Absolute/Conjunct Endings. Preverbs -- 7 Conditioning of Absolute/Conjunct Endings. Conjunct Particles -- 8 Morphosyntactic Reflex of the Cowgill Particle -- 9 Morphophonological Reflex of the Cowgill Particle -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- 10: On the Functional Superstructure of the Noun Phrase in Indo-European -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The DP in Ancient Greek -- 3 Extraposition Out of DP -- 4 Does DP Go Back to Proto-Indo-European? On the Search for DP in Latin -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Primary Sources -- Grammars -- Research Literature -- 11: Understanding Translation Effects: Lessons from the Old English Heptateuch -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology and Data -- 2.1 Data -- 2.1.1 PP Data -- 2.1.2 OP Data -- 2.2 Methodology -- 2.2.1 PP Data -- 2.2.2 OP Data -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Reproduction of Latin Source Construction -- 3.1.1 Object Pronouns (OPs) -- 3.1.2 PPs -- 3.1.3 Discussion -- 3.2 Frequency of Latin Order -- 3.2.1 Discussion -- 3.3 Direct and Indirect Effects -- 3.3.1 Direct Effects -- 3.3.1.1 OP Data -- 3.3.1.2 PP Data -- 3.3.2 Indirect Effects -- 3.3.2.1 OP Data -- 3.3.2.2 PP Data -- 3.3.3 Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 12: Phonological Regularity and Breakdown. An Account of Vowel Length Leveling in Middle English -- 1 The Leveling of Vowel Length in Middle English -- 2 Quantifying Regularity: The Tolerance Principle -- 3 What Leveled, Why, and Where To? -- 3.1 What Leveled and Why -- 3.2 Directionality of Leveling -- 4 Conclusion and Prospects -- References.
Part IV: Indo-European Philology and Etymology -- 13: Guests. Welcome or not -- References -- 14: Asyndetic Verbal Pairs in the Classical Armenian Gospels and Their Treatment in the Other Five First Millennium ce Indo-European Versions -- References -- 15: Celt. *meh2-ró- 'large, great' versus Gmc. *meh1-ró- 'made known, spoken of' -- 1 Celtic *māro- 'large, great' -- 2 Gmc. *mēro- -- 2.1 Personal Names in *-mēro- -- 2.2 Gothic Appellatives -- 2.3 West Germanic Appellatives -- 2.3.1 Old English -- 2.3.2 Old High German and Beyond -- 2.3.3 Other West Germanic -- 2.3.4 North Germanic -- 3 Summation -- References -- 16: 'Between uneducated and educated, or hot and cold, or bitter and sweet … there's a middle point': Varro and the Middle Accent -- 1 Evidence -- 2 Modern Views -- 3 A Further Piece of Evidence -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 17: Obscured figurae etymologicae and Word Origins. Two Examples Involving Gothic -- 1 2. PGmc. *huzdijan. -- 2 3. Goth. wilwan. -- References -- 18: South Oscan κλοπουστ (with an Appendix on [Osco-?]Lat. bvrvs) -- 1 Introductory -- 2 Previous Solution #1: Root Aorist Relic -- 3 Previous Solution #2: Dereduplicated O-grade Perfect -- 4 A New Approach. Osc. κλοπουστ as Denominative 'simple perfect' -- 5 Appendix: (Osco-?)Latin bvrvs -- References -- Index.
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