Languages and Cultures
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Languages and Cultures

Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé

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Languages and Cultures

Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Contributors
  3. Edgar C. Polomé: A biographical sketch
  4. Bibliography of E. C. Polomé
  5. Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt
  6. On the origins of the Indo-European dative-locative singular endings
  7. On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic inscriptions
  8. Der indogermanische Aorist und das germanische Prateritum
  9. Low German as a literary language in Schleswig-Holstein in the seventeenth century: A poem by Anna Ovena Hoyers
  10. The origin of the Indo-European pronominal inflection
  11. Meaning and pre-history of OIr. lĂșan lĂĄith
  12. Gothic saihw and sai, with some notes on imperative interjections in Germanic
  13. Pāáč‡ini and the Northwestern dialect: Some suggestions on SĆ«tra 3.3.10
  14. Post-script, errata, varia
  15. On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain and Scandinavia
  16. L’oubykh d’Evliya Çelebi: complĂ©ments
  17. Ex Oriente Lux On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
  18. A bouquet of Armenian birds for Edgar Polomé
  19. The Indo-European terms for ‘marriage’
  20. The development of Romani linguistics
  21. The cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans
  22. Language and ethnicity
  23. On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex complements in some African languages
  24. The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich
  25. Zur Etymologie und Wortgeschichte von deutsch Amtsschimmel und Akt (in der Kunst)
  26. Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature
  27. An eastern etymon for sarape?
  28. Orthographica onomastica
  29. Old Irish boí ‘was’
  30. Topic-prominence and zero NP-anaphora in Marathi and Hindi
  31. Yima et la mort
  32. Competing generalizations and linguistic change
  33. Ostgermanische Relikte im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum
  34. Vestjysk stĂžd, Icelandic preaspiration, and Proto-Indo-European glottalic stops
  35. Adhikāra – right and responsibility
  36. Some problems in the translation of Beowulf
  37. “The Divine Twins” or “The Twins ... Divine?”
  38. The druids and human sacrifice
  39. Some remarks on ‘laryngeals’ and Celtic
  40. L’extraposition du prĂ©dicat verbal dans les crĂ©oles Ă  base lexicale anglaise et française
  41. Les champs sémantiques de la racine *H2ei-g- en grec
  42. Le systÚme des modes en latin classique: présentation fonctionnaliste
  43. The Sacred Marriage – a study in Norse mythology
  44. Zum Verhaltnis der grammatischen Kategorien Person und Modus im Indogermanischen
  45. Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary
  46. The Horn of Gallehus and the subgrouping of the Germanic languages
  47. Sacerdos ‘qui sacrum dat’, sacrum dare and sacra facere in ancient Italy
  48. On the source of Hittite halzai-
  49. Sul nome dei ‘Veneti’
  50. The impact of language (morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf redux
  51. Damned in-laws and other problems
  52. Tense vs. aspect in Sango and Swahili of Lubumbashi
  53. The role of the Tamil film in language change and political change
  54. Comments on some of the Indo-European medio-passive endings
  55. On Armenian phonology and Indo-European reconstruction
  56. Talk about tu and vous
  57. Heroic ethical philosophy and philosophical consolation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
  58. Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Anreger einer niederlandisch-sprachigen Neuphilologie
  59. Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture
  60. Bilingualism and mother tongue education
  61. Na sthātavyam (‘Not Being Stayed’) in The Eight-Thousand-Line Perfection-of-Wisdom Sutra
  62. The languages of the peoples of the USSR
  63. The role of continental contacts for Scandinavian glottogenesis with special reference to the enclitic passive
  64. Umlaut-disrupting factors in Germanic
  65. Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindu-Urdu
  66. Die innergermanische Lautverschiebung und die Entstehung der germanischen und deutschen Dialekte
  67. Translation: Minimizing errors in the thought process
  68. Cardinal points and other directions in Tocharian A and B