The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill

This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985). Cowgill's dazzling mastery of the entire Indo-European linguistic world is on full display, with every work a model of expert methodology and depth of thinking. Two previously unpublished pieces, one on the origin of the z-pronouns in Germanic and the other the full version of his article on the personal endings of thematic verbs in Indo-European, appear here for the first time. The volume also includes over a half-dozen personal reminiscences by former colleagues and students, plus a valuable and engaging autobiographical letter written shortly before Cowgill's untimely death. Each article has been carefully re-typeset and edited to give a handsome and unified look to the volume.

Table of Contents:
  Prelude Introduction............................................................................................................... vii Bibliography of Warren Cowgill.......................................................................... xxi Dissertations Directed by Warren Cowgill............................................................ xxv Reminiscences Offered at the Memorial Service.............................................. xxvii Warren Cowgill as Teacher...................................................................................... xli Cowgill on Cowgill: Autobiographical Letter to the LSA Archives.................. xlvii     Writings               GENERAL INDO-EUROPEAN A Search for Universals in Indo-European Diachronic Morphology..................... 1 Indo-European Languages........................................................................................ 19 More Evidence for Indo-Hittite: The Tense-Aspect Systems....................................... 37 Anatolian hi-Conjugation and Indo-European Perfect: Instalment II.......................... 53 The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European.................................... 69               INDO-IRANIAN The Aorists and Perfects of Old Persian....................................................................... 77 The First Person Singular Medio-Passive of lndo-Iranian.................................... 85 On the Origin of the Indic es-Precative....................................................................... 93               GREEK Greek ou and Armenian oc'.......................................................................................... 99 Common Sense and Laryngeal Theory: A Reply to Mr. Rosen's Rejoinder............ 103 The Supposed Cypriote Optatives duwdnoi and dokoi,              with Notes on the Greek Infinitive Formations................................................ 117 Evidence in Greek......................................................................................................... 137 Ancient Greek Dialectology in the Light of Mycenaean                                     173 Agtin : ageiro: A New r/n-Alternation........................................................................................ 187               ITALO - CELTIC Italic and Celtic Superlatives and the Dialects of Indo-European......................... 191               ITALIC The Source of Latin.stare, with Notes on Comparable Forms Elsewhere in Indo-European .... 227 The Source of Latin vis 'Thou Wilt'.......................................................................... 251 The Second Plural of the Umbrian Verb.............................................................. 267               CELTIC Old Irish teoir and cetheoir....................................................................................... 277 On the Fate of'-'w in Old Irish..................................................................................... 281 A Note  on Palatalization in Old Irish........................................................................ 291 The  Origins of  the Insular  Celtic  Conjunct  and  Absolute  Verbal  Endings ................ 299 Two Further Notes on the Origin of the Insular Celtic Absolute and Conjunct Verb Endings ..... 323 The  Etymology of lrish guidid and  the  Outcome  of *l'g"'h  in  Celtic................ 329 On the Prehistory of  Celtic  Passive  and  Deponent  Inflection................................. 353 On the Origin of the Absolute and Conjunct Verbal Inflexion of Old Irish............ 387               GERMANIC The Inflection of the Germanic o-Presents..................................................................... 395 Gothic  iddja  and  Old  English  eode........................................................... 409 The Old English Present Indicative Ending -e............................................................. 427 PIE *,:,du110 ' 2' in Germanic and Celtic, and the Nom.-Acc. Dual of Non-Neuter a-Stems ... 433 Loss of Morphophonemic Alternation in Moribund Categories,                            as Exemplified in the Gothic Verb .......................................................... 441               TOCHARIAN Ablaut, Accent, and Umlaut in the Tocharian Subjunctive..................................... 445               BALTO·SLAVIC The Nominative Plural and Preterit  Singular of the Active Participles in Baltic ................... 451               REVIEWS AND COMMENTS Review of Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse...................................................... 463 Review of Krahe, Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft.......................................... 469 Review of Puhvel, Laryngeals and the Indo-Eitropean Verb.................................... 473 Review of Mayrhofer, Sanskrit-Grammatik............................................................... 497 Comment on Wailes, "The Origins of Settled Farming in Temperate Europe" ................. 501 Review of Schmidt and Kodderitzsch (eds.), Indogermanisch und Kcltisch........... 503 Book Notice of Erhart, Indoevropske jazyky.............................................................. 507 Review of Arbeitman and Bombard (eds.), Bono Homini Donum:                             Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J Alexander Kerns ....... 509               AUS DEM NACHLASS The z-Cases of Germanic Pronouns and Strong Adjectives              519 The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European (longer version) .......... 535                 Index of Forms                                                                              569

About the Author :
Jared Klein, who completed his doctoral work under Cowgill in 1974, is Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Classics, and Germanic and Slavic Languages at the University of Georgia at Athens. He has written widely on the language and style of the Rigveda, and has a special interest in discourse particles in Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages. He is the author of The Particle u in the Rigveda (1978), Toward a Discourse Grammar of the Rigveda (1995), and many articles and reviews.