Ancient Indo-European languages between linguistics and philology : : contact, variation, and reconstruction / / edited by Michele Bianconi [and three others].

"Studying the Indo-European languages means having a privileged viewpoint on diachronic language change, because of their relative wealth of documentation, which spans over more than three millennia with almost no interruption, and their cultural position that they have enjoyed in human history...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 18
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
Notes:International conference proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Michele Bianconi and Marta Capano
  • 1 Divine Witnesses in Greece and Anatolia: Iliad 3.276-280 between Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction
  • Michele Bianconi
  • 2 Elamite and Persian Indefinites: A Comparative View
  • Juan E. Briceño-Villalobos
  • 3 Phenomena of Spirantization and Language Contact in Greek Sicilian Inscriptions. The case of ΤΡΙΑΙΝΤΑ
  • Marta Capano
  • 4 Egyptian Greek: A Contact Variety
  • Sonja Dahlgren
  • 5 Substrate Matters
  • Franco Fanciullo
  • 6 Natural Language Use and Bilingual Interference: Verbal Complementation Patterns in Post-Classical Greek
  • Victoria Fendel
  • 7 Where Does Dionysus Ὕης Come From?
  • Laura Massetti
  • 8 Alignment Change and Changing Alignments: Armenian Syntax and the First 'Death' of Parthian
  • Robin Meyer
  • 9 Rewriting the Law: Diachronic Variation and Register in Greek and Hittite Legal Language
  • Katharine Shields
  • 10 Lexical Variation in Younger Avestan: The Problem of the 'Ahuric' and 'Daevic' Vocabularies Revisited
  • Elizabeth Tucker
  • 11 Greek ἄγυρις 'Gathering' between Dialectology and Indo-European Reconstruction
  • Roberto Batisti
  • 12 Here's to a Long Life! Echoes of Indo-European Semantics in Albanian
  • Brian Joseph
  • Index.