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Bono Homini Donum
Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)
The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 December 2011
Published online on 19 December 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–7
- Dedication | pp. ix–xi
- Table of contens | pp. xiii–xvi
- Section I: Kerns-Schwartz coda
- On the Indo-european tense systemJ. Alexander Kerns and Benjamin Schwartz | pp. 3–13
- Section II: Indo-european studies
- The pre-History of Tocharian preterite participlesDouglas Q. Adams | pp. 17–24
- Rhotacism in hieroglyphic Luwian (with commentary by Allan R. Bomhard)Yoël L. Arbeitman and Gilbert-James Ayala | pp. 25–29
- Anaphoriques du type νι νen hittiteFrançoise Bader | pp. 31–45
- Intervocalic laryngeal in Gatha-AvestanRobert S.P. Beekes | pp. 47–64
- Venetic revisitedMadison S. Beeler | pp. 65–71
- New linguistic data for Hispano-Celtic: An evaluationCornelius Joseph Crowley | pp. 73–85
- Levels of phonological restriction in Greek affixesEdwin D. Floyd | pp. 87–106
- Some characteristics of modern colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg Byw)Robert A. Fowkes | pp. 107–118
- Concerning the reply of Kerns and Schwarz to AustinJohn A.C. Greppin | pp. 119–126
- Albanian edhe “and”Eric P. Hamp | pp. 127–131
- “Decem” and “Taihyn” languages: An Indo-European isoglossPaul J. Hopper | pp. 133–142
- Judeo-Italian lexical items collected by Zalman YvoelyGeorge Jochnowitz | pp. 143–157
- L’imaginaire en linguistiqueGuy Jucquois | pp. 159–178
- The genitive singular ending in — syo: How an Indo-Europeanist worksWinfred P. Lehmann | pp. 179–188
- Etymological observations on bramling, bunting, fieldfare, godwit, and wrenW.B. Lockwood | pp. 189–201
- Noch einmal hethitisch ḫeu- “regen”Erich Neu | pp. 203–212
- A functional viwew of word equationsChristian Peeters | pp. 213–216
- Greek nouns of the type of κνημΐςJames W. Poultney | pp. 217–236
- “Spider” and “mole” in hittiteJaan Puhvel | pp. 237–242
- Ergatrivity in Indo-EuropeanWilliam R. Schmalstieg | pp. 243–258
- On Hittite-Luwian andIndo-European etymologiesVitalij Shevoroshkin | pp. 259–261
- On Indo-European sigmatic verbal formationsKenneth Shields | pp. 263–279
- Sprachverfall und Sprachtod besonders im Lichte indogermaischer SprachenOswald Szemerényi | pp. 281–310
- Schwundstufige Formen von langvokalischen Verben im AltindischenJohann Tischler | pp. 311–323
- Recherches comparatives sur le vocabolaire des langues anatoliennesA.J. van Windekens | pp. 325–344
- Hittite ḫarziyalla-Calvert Watkins | pp. 345–348
- Section III: Typological studies and distant linguistic relationship
- Indo-European and Afroasiatic: New evidence for the connetctionAllan R. Bomhard | pp. 351–474
- Typological paralells between Proto-Indo-European and the northwest Cuacasian languagesJohn Colarusso | pp. 475–557
- Volume II
- Typology versus reconstructionGeorge Dunkel | pp. 559–569
- Language typology and language universals and their implications for the reconstruction of the Indo- European stop systemThomas V. Gamkrelidze | pp. 571–609
- Section IV: Afroasiatic studies
- An inquiry into the formation of the Middle Aramaic dialectsDaniel Boyarin | pp. 613–649
- Les niveaux de langue dans la poésie populaire arabe du maghrebJaques Grand’Henry | pp. 651–658
- Coptic double consonantsCarleton T. Hodge | pp. 659–664
- Diglossia in ancient Hebrew as revealed through compound verbsGary Rendsburg | pp. 665–677
- The structure and inflexion of the verb in the Semito-Mamitic grammarOtto Rössler | pp. 679–748
- Section V: Cretan studies
- Santas and Kupapa on CreteJon-Christian Billigmeier | pp. 751–760
- The Semitic language of Minoan CreteCyrus H. Gordon | pp. 761–782
- The Phaistos disk, again?Benjamin Schwartz | pp. 783–799
- Section VI: Varia
- La scomparsa del “passato remoto” in romanzo e in tedescoGiuliano Bonfante | pp. 803–806
- Principles of stylistic analysisGiorgio Buccellati | pp. 807–836
- “Rekomponierte” LehnbildungenRoberto Gusmani | pp. 837–843
- Altaic origins of the Japanese verb classesRoy Andrew Miller | pp. 845–880
- Can graphemic change cause phonemic change?Edgar C. Polomé | pp. 881–888
- The Hittite is my mother: An Anatolean approach to Gennesis 23 (ex Indo-Europea lux)Yoël L. Arbeitman | pp. 889–1026
- Index Verborum | pp. 1027–1076
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