Laws and rules in Indo-European / edited by Philomen Probert and Andreas Willi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Probert, Philomen, editor.

Willi, Andreas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages--Syntax.

Indo-European languages.

Indo-European languages--Grammar.

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 393 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2012.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Philomen Probert Probert, Philomen, Andreas Willi Willi, Andreas 1

Part I Linguistic 'laws' in pre-modern thought

2 Fern do frestol na .u. consaine: perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish / Paul Russell Russell, Paul 17

Part II Rules of language change and linguistic methodology

3 Cladistic principles and linguistic reality: the case of West Germanic / Don Ringe Ringe, Don 33

4 Older Runic evidence for North-West Germanic a-umlaut of u (and 'the converse of Polivanov's Law') / Patrick Stiles Stiles, Patrick 43

5 A law unto themselves? An acoustic phonetic study of 'tonal' consonants in British Panjabi / Jane Stuart-Smith Stuart-Smith, Jane, Mario Cortina-Borja Cortina-Borja, Mario 61

6 Kurylowicz's first 'law of analogy' and the development of passive periphrases in Latin / Wolfgang de Melo Melo, Wolfgang de 83

7 Phonetic laws, language diffusion, and drift: the loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC / Anna Morpurgo Davies Davies, Anna Morpurgo 102

Part III Segmental sound laws: new proposals and reassessments

8 A rule of deaspiration in ancient Greek / Paul Elbourne Elbourne, Paul 125

9 Regular sound change and word-initial */i/- in Armenian / Daniel Kölligan Kölligan, Daniel 134

10 Schrijver's rules for British and Proto-Celtic *-ou- and *-uu- before a vowel / Nicholas Zair Zair, Nicholas 147

Part IV Origins and evolutions

11 Origins of the Greek law of limitation / Philomen Probert Probert, Philomen 163

12 Re-examining Lindeman's Law / Peter Barber Barber, Peter 182

13 Exon's Law and the Latin syncopes / Ranjan Sen Sen, Ranjan 205

Part V Systemic consequences

14 Brugmann's Law: the problem of Indo-Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives / Elizabeth Tucker Tucker, Elizabeth 229

15 Kiparsky's Rule, thematic nasal presents, and athematic verba vocalia in Greek / Andreas Willi Willi, Andreas 260

Part VI Synchronic laws and rules in syntax and sociolinguistics

16 Praetor urbanus - urbanus praetor, some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin / David Langslow Langslow, David 279

17 The rules of politeness and Latin request formulae / Eleanor Dickey Dickey, Eleanor 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-357) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199609926

9780199609925

OCLC:

755699405

Publisher Number:

99962415042