Languages and Cultures : : Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé / / ed. by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Abboud, Peter F.,; Adrados, Francisco R.,; Antonsen, Elmer H.,; Bammesberger, Alfred,; Becker-Cantarino, Barbara,; Beekes, Robert S. P.,; Campanile, Enrico,; Coetsem van, Frans,; Derolez, René,; Deshpande, Madhav M.,; Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques,; Dumézil, Georges,; Düwel, Klaus,; Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.,; Greppin, John A. C.,; Hamp, Eric P.,; Hancock, Ian,; Haudry, Jean,; Haugen, Einar,; Heine, Bernd,; Heinen, Hubert,; Hiersche, Rolf,; Hill, Archibald A.,; Hill, Beverly G.,; Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Jasanoff, Jay H.,; Jazayery, M. A.,; Junghare, Indira Y.,; Kellens, Jean,; King, Robert D.,; Knobloch, Johann,; Kortlandt, Frederik,; Lariviere, Richard W.,; Lehmann, Ruth P. M.,; Lehmann, Winfred P.,; Lincoln, Bruce,; Lindeman, Fredrik Otto,; Manessy, Gabriel,; Manessy-Guitton, Jacqueline,; Maniet, Albert,; Motz, Lotte,; Neu, Erich,; Nurse, Derek,; Olphen van, Herman,; Penzl, Herbert,; Prosdocimi, Aldo,; Puhvel, Jaan,; Ramat, Paolo,; Rauch, Irmengard,; Reh, Mechthild,; Samarin, William J.,; Schicho, Walter,; Schiffman, Harold F.,; Schmalstieg, William R.,; Schmidt, Karl Horst,; Sherzer, Joel,; Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie,; Simpson, John M.,; Soeteman, Cornelis,; Southworth, Franklin C.,; Srivastava, R. N.,; Streng, Frederick J.,; Tumanjan, E. G.,; Ureland, P. Sture,; Vennemann, Theo,; Weinstock, John,; Winter, Werner,
• HerausgeberIn: Jazayery, Mohammad Ali,; Winter, Werner,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (791 p.)

This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.

Table of Contents

I-XVIII -- Edgar C. Polomé: A biographical sketch -- Bibliography of E. C. Polomé -- Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt -- On the origins of the Indo-European dative-locative singular endings -- On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic inscriptions -- Der indogermanische Aorist und das germanische Prateritum -- Low German as a literary language in Schleswig-Holstein in the seventeenth century: A poem by Anna Ovena Hoyers -- The origin of the Indo-European pronominal inflection -- Meaning and pre-history of OIr. lúan láith -- Gothic saihw and sai, with some notes on imperative interjections in Germanic -- Pāṇini and the Northwestern dialect: Some suggestions on Sūtra 3.3.10 -- Post-script, errata, varia -- On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain and Scandinavia -- L’oubykh d’Evliya Çelebi: compléments -- Ex Oriente Lux On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans -- A bouquet of Armenian birds for Edgar Polomé -- The Indo-European terms for ‘marriage’ -- The development of Romani linguistics -- The cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans -- Language and ethnicity -- On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex complements in some African languages -- The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich -- Zur Etymologie und Wortgeschichte von deutsch Amtsschimmel und Akt (in der Kunst) -- Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature -- An eastern etymon for sarape? -- Orthographica onomastica -- Old Irish boí ‘was’ -- Topic-prominence and zero NP-anaphora in Marathi and Hindi -- Yima et la mort -- Competing generalizations and linguistic change -- Ostgermanische Relikte im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum -- Vestjysk stød, Icelandic preaspiration, and Proto-Indo-European glottalic stops -- Adhikāra – right and responsibility -- Some problems in the translation of Beowulf -- “The Divine Twins” or “The Twins ... Divine?” -- The druids and human sacrifice -- Some remarks on ‘laryngeals’ and Celtic -- L’extraposition du prédicat verbal dans les créoles à base lexicale anglaise et française -- Les champs sémantiques de la racine *H2ei-g- en grec -- Le système des modes en latin classique: présentation fonctionnaliste -- The Sacred Marriage – a study in Norse mythology -- Zum Verhaltnis der grammatischen Kategorien Person und Modus im Indogermanischen -- Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary -- The Horn of Gallehus and the subgrouping of the Germanic languages -- Sacerdos ‘qui sacrum dat’, sacrum dare and sacra facere in ancient Italy -- On the source of Hittite halzai- -- Sul nome dei ‘Veneti’ -- The impact of language (morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf redux -- Damned in-laws and other problems -- Tense vs. aspect in Sango and Swahili of Lubumbashi -- The role of the Tamil film in language change and political change -- Comments on some of the Indo-European medio-passive endings -- n Armenian phonology and Indo-European reconstruction -- Talk about tu and vous -- Heroic ethical philosophy and philosophical consolation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde -- Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Anreger einer niederlandisch-sprachigen Neuphilologie -- Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture -- Bilingualism and mother tongue education -- Na sthātavyam (‘Not Being Stayed’) in The Eight-Thousand-Line Perfection-of-Wisdom Sutra -- The languages of the peoples of the USSR -- The role of continental contacts for Scandinavian glottogenesis with special reference to the enclitic passive -- Umlaut-disrupting factors in Germanic -- Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindu-Urdu -- Die innergermanische Lautverschiebung und die Entstehung der germanischen und deutschen Dialekte -- Translation: Minimizing errors in the thought process -- Cardinal points and other directions in Tocharian A and B