Proto-Indo-European ‘fox’ and the reconstruction of an athematic ḱ-stem
Indo-European Linguistics, 2021 This paper presents a detailed etymological analysis of words for ‘fox’ in Indo-European (IE) languages. We argue that most IE ‘fox’-words go back to two distinct PIE stems: *h₂lō̆p-eḱ- ‘fox’ and *ulp-i- ‘wildcat, fox’. We provide a revised analysis of
Axel. Palmer +5 more
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The words for 'star' in Indo-European and Semitic [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 This article brings together two fields: (1) the traditional study of the lexicon of Proto-Indo-European (including the material culture and belief system of the prehistoric speakers of Proto-Indo-European) and (2) the traditional study of the lexicon of
Bomhard, A.R.
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Fragmenta excerpti de thesauri leguminosarum: Three of the world's first domesticated plants in the Indo-European languages of Europe [PDF]
Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2015 The words denoting lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), pea (Pisum sativum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in the modern Indo-European languages show a high level of uniformity in morphology and semantics and reveal the traces of mutual borrowings among the
Mikić Aleksandar
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2023 The emergence of new languages out of languages in contact is a phenomenon that can be observed with a naked eye on the African terrain (see Abidjan French, Sango, Swahili for example).
Cyril Aslanov +2 more
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Mount Parnassos and the Labyrinth: From Korinthos to Knossos, from Zakynthos to Halicarnassus
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 This paper revisits the Greek *-nthos- and *-ssos/*-ttos names and analyzes them in the context of the language contacts between the Pre-Proto-Greek peoples arriving in Greece and the Pre-Greek populations already in place.
Juan Luis García Alonso
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Personal and impersonal sentences in Lithuanian and Proto-Indo-European
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The dative subject construction of the historical languages is the continuation of the Proto-Indo-European thematic present. It was largely replaced by the construction with a nominative subject that continued the athematic present as well as the aorist,
F. Kortlandt
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Sulla ricostruzione degli esponenti di persona singolare nelle desinenze verbali del PIE
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E. languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type.
Alfredo Rizza
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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Grain legume crop history among Slavic nations traced using linguistic evidence
Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2014 With Proto-Slavic and other Proto-Indo-European homelands close to each other and on the routes of domestication of the first cultivated grain legumes, now known as pulses, one may assume that the ancestors of the modern Slavic nations knew field beans ...
Aleksandar MIKIĆ
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The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European
Indogermanische Forschungen, 2019 For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo- European linguistics has been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state, given the lack of distinction between s and o marking in the Proto-Indo ...
Roland Pooth +3 more
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