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The phonetics of PIE *d I: typological considerations
While the phonetic details of most PIE obstruents have been the topic of numerous studies, the coronal stops have attracted less attention, possibly as the result of their non-controversial status, vis-à-vis velars or laryngeals.
Jan Bičovský
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Proto-Indo-European Roots of the Vedic Aryans
Recent archaeological evidence and the comparative method of Indo-European historical linguistics now make it possible to reconstruct the Aryan migrations into India, two separate diffusions of which merge with elements of Harappan religion in Asko ...
Travis D. Webster
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Balto-Slavic accentual mobility [PDF]
Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006) offers a useful introduction to the history of Balto-Slavic accentuation supported by an impressive command of the scholarly ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Fresh views on the early history of Indo-European and its relation to Uralic [Book review] [PDF]
Book review. Reviewed book: Kloekhorst, Alwin & Pronk, Tijmen (eds.): The precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses (Leiden Studies in Indo-European, 21).
Holopainen, Sampsa
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Origin of the words denoting some of the most ancient old world pulse crops and their diversity in modern European languages. [PDF]
This preliminary research was aimed at finding the roots in various Eurasian proto-languages directly related to pulses and giving the words denoting the same in modern European languages. Six Proto-Indo-European roots were indentified, namely arnk(')- ('
Aleksandar Mikić
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The spread of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
The publication of Mallory’s book (1989) has rendered much of what I had to say in the present contribution superfluous. The author presents a carefully argued and very well written account of a balanced view on almost every aspect of the problem ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Two Indo-Iranian names (probably Old Aryan) in regions under Mittani influence (14th BC), which are diverging, in form and/or semantics, from their contemporary comparanda in the IE languages of 2nd millennium Anatolian reflect different developments ...
José Luis García Ramón
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Stress assignment in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European
This paper develops a new optimality theoretic analysis of lexical accent in Hittite (Anatolian, Indo-European). I demonstrate that Hittite synchronic stress assignment is consistent with Kiparsky and Halle's (1977) Basic Accentuation Principle, which ...
Anthony D. Yates
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