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Comparison and gradation in Indo-European/ edited by Götz Keydana, Wolfgang Hock, Paul Widmer.
In English.Includes bibliographical references and index.The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition. Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any language.
Ackermann Katsiaryna +24 more
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Shamanism in Indo-European Mythologies
The paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of true shamanism. The second part shows that some key features of shamanism can be found outside Siberia,
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C.C. Uhlenbeck made a distinction between two components of Proto-Indo-European, which he called A and B (1935a: 133ff.). The first component comprises pronouns, verbal roots, and derivational suffixes, and may be compared with Uralic, whereas the second
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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INDO-EUROPEAN DENDRONYMS: “OAK”
This article explores the lexical and etymological designations of “oak” within the Indo-European language family. The analysis identifi es three primary etymological roots associated with the oak: The following words are of particular interest in this ...
Bohdan Chernyukh
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L’età dell’oro sotto Vr̥tra e la formula indoeuropea ‘terra inarata’
In a Rāmāyaṇa passage Vr̥tra is represented as a king of the Golden Age. Virtuous, pious and compassionate, he is killed by a ruthless Indra. The meaning of such an anomalous episode is analyzed in the light of the dumezilian comparative method ...
Rosa Ronzitti
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Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European Deponents
This paper argues that the Proto-Indo-European voice system, despite undergoing several waves of morphological renewal on the way to the daughter languages (Jasanoff 2003), was typologically that of early IE languages like Vedic and Greek, and ...
L. Grestenberger
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Hittite hi-verbs and the Indo-European perfect
In an earlier study (1983) I argued that unlike aorists and athematic presents, Indo-European perfects and thematic presents originally had a dative subject, as in German mir träumt ‘me dreams’ for ich träume ‘I dream’, e.g.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Might Hurro-Urartian and North-Caucasian Languages Be Derived from (or Related to) Indo-European?
Several basic-lexicon etymologies, with regular sound correspondences, suggest Hurro-Urartian (HU) might be derived from (or related to) Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Preliminary evidence suggests North-Caucasian (NC) languages might also be related to PIE –
Gianfranco Forni
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Kosmas´s and Dalimil´s “girl´s war” as a metaphor of the Indo-European war of functions. What we want to introduce in our contribution, is an attempt at an interpretation of the old story from Czech medieval chronicles.
Martin Golema
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Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia: Six new perspectives on prehistoric exchange in the Eastern Steppe Zone. [PDF]
Bjørn RG.
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