Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé

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by  Mohammad A. Jazayery, Werner Winter

Languages and Cultures
Trends in Linguistics
Studies and Monographs 36
Editor
Werner Winter
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York · Amsterdam

Languages and Cultures
Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polome
edited by
Mohammad Ali Jazayery and Werner Winter
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York · Amsterdam 1988
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Languages and cultures : studies in honor of Edgar C. Polome
/ edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery and Werner Winter.
791 p. — (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs
;36)
Articles chiefly in English; some articles in other languages.
Includes bibliographies.
ISBN 0-89925-442-X (alk. paper)
1. Language and languages. 2. Linguistics. 3. Indo-Euro-
pean languages. 4. Polome, Edgar C. I. Polome, Edgar, C.
II. Jazayery, Mohammad Ali, 1924- . III. Winter, Wer-
ner, 1923- . IV. Series.
P26.P56L36 1988
400-dcl9 88-5190
CIP
CIP-Titelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek
Languages and cultures : studies in honor of Edgar C. Polome
/ ed. by Mohammad Ali Jazayery and Werner Winter. — Berlin
; New York ; Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter, 1988
(Trends in linguistics : Studies and monographs ; 36)
ISBN 3-11-010204-8
NE: Jazayery, Mohammad Ali [Hrsg.]; Polome, Edgar C.:
Festschrift; Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs
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Table of Contents
Foreword XI
Contributors XIII
Edgar C. Polome: A biographical sketch 1
Bibliography of E. C. Polome 2
M. A. Jazayery
Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt 21
Peter F. Abboud
On the origins of the Indo-European dative-locative singular
endings 29
Francisco R. Adrados
On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic
inscriptions 43
Elmer H. Antonsen
Der indogermanische Aorist und das germanische Präteritum 55
Alfred Bammesberger
Low German as a literary language in Schleswig-Holstein in
the seventeenth century: A poem by Anna Ovena Hoyers . . 63
Barbara Becker-Cantarino
The origin of the Indo-European pronominal inflection . .. 73
Robert S. P. Beekes
Meaning and pre-history of Olr. luan laith 89
Enrico Campanile
Gothic saihw and sai, with some notes on imperative
interjections in Germanic 97
Rene Derolez and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Pänini and the Northwestern dialect: Some suggestions on
Sutra 3.3.10 Ill
Madhav M. Deshpande
Post-script, errata, varia 123
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
VI Table of contents
On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain and
Scandinavia 133
Klaus Düwel
L'oubykh d'Evliya £elebi: complements 157
Georges Dumezil
Ex Oriente Lux
On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the
Proto-Indo-Europeans 161
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
A bouquet of Armenian birds for Edgar Polome 169
John A. C. Greppin
The Indo-European terms for 'marriage' 179
Eric P. Hamp
The development of Romani linguistics 183
Ian Hancock
The cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans 225
Jean Haudry
Language and ethnicity 235
Einar Haugen
On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex
complements in some African languages 245
Bernd Heine and Mechthild Reh
The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aue's Der arme
Heinrich 259
Hubert Heinen
Zur Etymologie und Wortgeschichte von deutsch
Amtsschimmel und Akt (in der Kunst) 269
Rolf Hiersche
Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature . . .. 279
Archibald A. Hill
An eastern etymon for sarape ? 287
Beverly G. Hill
Orthographica onomastica 297
Henry M. Hoenigswald
Table of contents VII
Old Irish to/'was' 299
Jay H. Jasanoff
Topic-prominence and zero NP-anaphora in Marathi
and Hindi 309
Indira Y. Junghare
Yima et la mort 329
Jean Kellens
Competing generalizations and linguistic change 335
Robert D. King
Ostgermanische Relikte im bairisch-österreichischen
Sprachraum 347
Johann Knobloch
Vestjysk st0d, Icelandic preaspiration, and Proto-Indo-
European glottalic stops 353
Frederik Kortlandt
Adhikära — right and responsibility 359
Richard W. Lariviere
Some problems in the translation of Beowulf 365
Ruth P. M. Lehmann
"The Divine Twins" or "The Twins ... Divine?" 373
Winfred P. Lehmann
The druids and human sacrifice 381
Bruce Lincoln
Some remarks on 'laryngeals' and Celtic 397
Fredrik Otto Lindeman
L'extraposition du predicat verbal dans les Creoles a base
lexicale anglaise et frangaise 401
Gabriel Manessy
Les champs semantiques de la racine *H ei-g- en grec . . .. 419
2
Jacqueline Manessy-Guitton
Le Systeme des modes en latin classique: presentation
fonctionnaliste 439
Albert Maniet