Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

473 Pages·2003·73.624 MB·

by  Brigitte L. M. Bauer, Georges-Jean Pinault

Language in Time and Space
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Walter Bisang
Hans Henrich Hock
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Language in Time and Space
A Festschrift for Werner Winter
on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday
Edited by
Brigitte L. M. Bauer
Georges-Jean Pinault
Mouton de Gruyter
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Table of Contents
Werner Winter: Publications 1949-2003 ix
Introduction:
Werner Winter, ad multos annos xxiii
Patterns of stress and rhythm in Tocharian B prosody
Douglas Q. Adams 1
Old Irish masu 'if is' and similar forms
Anders Ahlqvist 13
On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts
Henning Andersen 19
A concept of truth for linguistic semantics
Jerzy Banczerowski 35
Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian B
-e- presents without initial palatalization
Gerd Carling 63
Some thoughts on 'Universals'
N. E. Collinge 77
Latin static morphology and paradigm families
Wolfgang U. Dressler 87
Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan
George van Driem 101
Some taboo-words in Iranian languages of Central Asia
Dioj (Joy) I. Edelman 121
Apposition and word-order typology in Indo-European
Olav Hackstein 131
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Reading Moliere's The Learned Ladies — remarks on (im)politeness
Fran^oise Hammer 153
Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism?
Lessons from the past for the present and the future
Hans Henrich Hock 167
On the origin of Tocharian terms for GRAIN
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov 189
The Hittite reflexive construction in a typological perspective
Folke Josephson 211
Praise and Honor (Gothic hazjan, Old English hergan, and
Russian cest')
Yuri Kleiner 233
The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite
Frederik Kortlandt 241
Realism in Indo-European Linguistics
Win/red P. Lehmann 245
Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian
Alexander Lubotsky and Sergei Starostin 257
Categorizing the Japanese lexicon. A proposal with a background
Alfred F. Majewicz 271
Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal
Boyd Michailovsky 287
'But' without switch-reference
Pamela Munro 293
Fresh shoots from a vigourous stem: IE *uihjro-
Birgit Anette Olsen 313
On the tracks of the Tocharian Guru
Georges-Jean Pinault 331
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Eventide in Hatti-land
Jaan Puhvel 347
An integrated view on ablaut and accent in Indo-European
Jens Elmegard Rasmussen 351
An early rule of syncope in Tocharian
Don Ringe 359
The Latin imperfect in -bä-, the Proto-Indo-European root
*bhueh - and full grade I forms from set-roots with full grade II
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Helmut Rix 363
Conceptualization of agency in contemporary Polish
Elzbieta Tabakowska 385
Ouvrier, Arbeiter, workman, rabocij, obrero, operaio
Wolfgang Viereck and Matthias Goldammer 405
Classical Armenian HAGAG 'breath' and OGEM 'to speak'
Jos J. S. Weitenberg 419
Index 429
Index of examples 439
Tabula Gratulatoria 441