Indo-European Perspectives: Studies In Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies

This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient world. The volume is a tribute to Anna Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement as the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.The book's six parts are concerned with the early history of Indo-European (Part I); language use, variation, and change in ancient Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European languages of Western Europe, including Latin, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the ancient Indo-Iranian and Tocharian languages (Part V); and the history of Indo-European linguistics (Part VI). Indo-European Perspectives will interest scholars and students of Indo-European philology, historical linguistics, classics, and the history of the ancient world.

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 alloeidéa (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 turó '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: Khaî re kaì píei eû' 23: Dr Andreas Willi: Flowing Riches: Greek áphenos 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 für "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 ça change ... : Lachmann's Law in Latin 31: Professor Don Ringe: Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mælan 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 päst 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 Hervás 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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
Indo European Perspectives honors one of the greatest Indo europeanists of the past generation. . . Historical linguistics, as she practised it, has helped us to know better what humans think and believe about themselves and the world and how societies function. . . It is a worthy tribute from international colleagues to M-D's rend-setting work. It also forms a snaphot of current work in those fields. . . . . the breadth and eclectic wealth of a multiple authored volume. . . /s Mark Southern and Tom Palamina, The Times Higher Education Supplement/d 28/10/05 `a perfect illustration of the importance of this volume, which contains more new ideas than many books twice its size.' Journal of Hellenic Studies