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Author:   J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.091kg
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9780199258925

ISBN 10:   0199258929
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   14 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Part I Indo-European 1: Professor Dr Paolo Di Giovine: Il perfetto indoeuropeo tra endomorfismo e esomorfismo 2: Professor Dr George Dunkel: Particles and Personal Pronouns: Inclusive *me and Exclusive *we 3: Profess D. R. Langslow: Etymology and History: For a Study of 'Medical Language' in Indo-European 4: Professor Dr. C. J. Ruijgh: The Stative Value of the PIE Verbal Suffix *-eh1- 5: Professor Calvert Watkins: The Third Donkey. Origin Legends and Some Hidden Indo-European Themes Part II Greek 6: Professor Dr Albio Cassio: Spoken Language and Written Text: The Case of alloeidea (Hom. Od. 13.194) 7: Professor Stephen Colvin: Social Dialect in Attica 8: Professor Dr Emilio Crespo: The Attitude of the Athenian StateTowards the Attic Dialect in the Classical Era 9: Professor Eleanor Dickey: Rules Without Reasons? Words for Children in Papyrus Letters 10: Professor Dr Yves Duhoux: Langage de femmes et d'hommes en grec ancien: l'exemple de Lysistrata 11: Professor Dr Ivo Hajnal: Die Tmesis bei Homer und auf den mykenischen Linear B-Tafeln - ein chronologisches Paradox? 12: The Late Professor Henry Hoenigswald: Hellespontos 13: Professor Geoffrey Horrocks: Aspect and Verbs of Movement in the History of Greek: Why Pericles Could Walk into Town but Karamanlis Could Not 14: Professor Joshua Katz: The Swimming Duck in Greek and Hittite 15: Professor John Killen: Names in -e and -e-u in Mycenaean Greek 16: Professor Charles de Lamberterie: Sella, subsellium, meretrix: sonantes voyelles et effet Saussure en grec ancien 17: Professor Dr Michael Meier-Brugger: Zu griechisch turo 'Kaese' 18: Dr Torsten Meissner: Two Mycenaean Problems 19: Dr Martin Peters: On Some Greek nt-Formations 20: Dr Philomen Probert: Accentuation in Old Attic, Later Attic and Attic 21: Professor Dr Peter Schrijver: Indo-European *(s)mer- in Greek and Celtic 22: Professor Dr Rudolf Wachter: Khai re kai piei eu' 23: Dr Andreas Willi: Flowing Riches: Greek aphenos and Indo-European Streams Part III Anatolian 24: Ms Gillian R. Hart: Some Problems in Anatolian Phonology and Etymology 25: Professor J. D. Hawkins: The Stag-God of the Countryside and Related Problems 26: Professor H. Craig Melchert: A Luwian Dedication 27: Professor Dr Norbert Oettinger: Das Wort fur Jahr und hieroglyphisch-luwisch yari- sich ausdehnen 28: Professor Massimo Poetto: Dal nome comune al nome divino, proprio e locale: il caso di tasku- in anatolico Part IV Western Indo-European Languages 29: Dr James P. T. Clackson: The Word-Order Pattern magna cum laude in Latin and Sabellian 30: Professor Jay Jasanoff: Plus ca change ... : Lachmann's Law in Latin 31: Professor Don Ringe: Old English mathelian, maethlan, maelan 32: Professor Dr Helmet Rix: I nomi delle figure dei miti greci nelle lingue dell'Italia arcaica. The first traces of Achilles and Hercules in Latin 33: Dr Paul Russell: Old Welsh Dinacat, Cunedag, Tutagual: Fossilised Phonology in Brittonic Personal Names 34: Dr Patrick V. Stiles: Consumer Issues: Beowulf 3115a and Germanic Bison 35: Professor Dr Jurgen Untermann: Die hispanische Heerschau des Silius Italicus Part V Indo-Iranian and Tocharian 36: Professor Dr Jose Luis Garcia Ramon: On Vedic Suppletion: das and vidh 37: Dr J. H. W. Penney: Tocharian B past and its Vocalism 38: Professor Dr Rudiger Schmitt: Promising Perspective or Dead End? The Issue of Metrical Passages in the Old Persian Inscriptions 39: Professor Nicola Sims-Williams: The Parthian Abstract Suffix -yft 40: Dr Elizabeth Tucker: Denominative Verbs in Avestan: Derivatives from Thematic Stems Part VI History of Indo-European Linguistics 41: Professor Dr Javier de Hoz: The Celtic Studies of Lorenzo Hervas in the Context of the Linguistics of his Time 42: University Professor Dr Klaus Strunk: Johannes Schmidt's Academic Career and his Letters to August Schleicher

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even the most erudite specialist -- for example, Anna Morpurgo Davies herself -- will find the book worth reading. Bryn Mawr Classical Review IEP is a good introduction to current research in Indo-European studies and would be valuable reading for students beginning to do research. Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...a fine collection of essays by some of the leading Indo-Europeanists Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1&2

even the most erudite specialist - for example, Anna Morpurgo Davies herself - will find the book worth reading. Bryn Mawr Classical Review IEP is a good introduction to current research in Indo-European studies and would be valuable reading for students beginning to do research. Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...a fine collection of essays by some of the leading Indo-Europeanists Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1&2

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J. H. W. Penney teaches comparative philology in the University of Oxford, where he is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and a Fellow of Wolfson College. His research interests include Indo-European phonology and morphology, the languages of Pre-Roman Italy, and Tocharian.

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