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

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• 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