Verba Docenti: Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics

This festschrift, in honour of the renowned Indo-Europeanist Jay Jasanoff, presents studies on topics ranging from the honorand's own specialty of Indo-European verbal morphology to Australian paleo linguistics. It contains contributions by such internationally distinguished colleagues as Ives Goddard, H. Craig Melchert, Martin Peters, Georges-Jean Pinault, P. Oktor Skjærv Brent Vine, and Calvert Watkins.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface.............................................................................................................................. vii Bibliography of  Brent Vine............................................................................................ ix List of Contributors........................................................................................................ xix Alain Blanc, Le toponyme grec Méthônê/Mêthônê: Localisations, étymologie, métrique ..................... A. C. Cassio, Old Ablatives, Homeric τW, and Helen’s Disenchantment (Iliad .–) ............ Adam Alvah Catt, Tocharian B a¯rt(t)e and Tocharian A a¯rtak .................................. Joseph F. Eska and Jean-François Mondon, Phonological Spreading, Voice- Onset Delay, or Phonetic Noise? Orthographic<φσ> and<χσ> in Greek Epichoric Inscriptions .............................................................. José Luis García Ramón, Infinitive As Complement of va´s in the Rig Veda ..................................... David M. Goldstein, Ennius Annales Sk ( V) and the History of Latin atque ................ Dieter Gunkel, Localizational Evidence for the Restoration of Rigvedic *mimihí ‘measure’ ......... Olav Hackstein, Allative Formations: Homeric Greek aλλυδις aλλη, Old Latin alii alia¯, and Congeners ...... Mark Hale, Some Notes on the Latin Interrogative Enclitic ™ne ............................. Stephanie W. Jamison, Another Sacrificed Wife: Euripides’ Alcestis Viewed from India ............... Jay H. Jasanoff, Palatable Thorns............................................................................... Ronald I. Kim, The Derivational History of Tocharian B war, A wär ‘water’....... Jared S. Klein, Semantics and Discourse: On Adversative Conjunction in Gothic …………………… Martin Joachim Kümmel, Zur Akzentuierung der Denominativa im Indogermanischen Charles de Lamberterie, Le verbe keal « vivre » de l’arménien classique........................... Claire Le Feuvre, Αiτις δN περιπλοµiνου eνιαυτοD (Hesiod Op. ): On the Formation of eνιαυτoς ... Melanie Malzahn, A Short History of Latin Presents in Long -e............................................ Richard P. Martin, Achilles Without End................................................................................... H. Craig Melchert, Empire Luvian *-wa/i-ní and Related Problems................................ Angelo O. Mercado, On the Problem of Homeric Greek aµφιφορεuς.................................... Sergio Neri, Genitiv und Lokativ: Zur Herkunft der urindogermanischen Genitivendung*-sio ........... Alexander Nikolaev, Greek θοoς ‘sharp’, Hittite tuhš- ‘to cut’.................................................. Kanehiro Nishimura, The hum¯ı ˘-Rule in Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan J. Nussbaum, Limning Some Limbs: A Note on Greek µηρoς ‘thigh’ and Its Relatives ...... Birgit Anette Olsen, What Happened to the Middle Participle in Latin?..................... Martin Peters, Felix Solmsen grammatikotatos kai philologikotatos.................................... Daniel Petit, On the Prehistory of Lithuanian patogùs and atogùs................................... Moss Pike, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria . .................................................................................... Paolo Poccetti, The -t¯od Imperative in Italic Languages: Comparative and Typological Insights ...... Philomen Probert, Are Correlative Pronouns Always Overt in Lydian?....................... Jeremy Rau, The Genetic Subgrouping of the Ancient Greek Dialects: Achaean .................. Don Ringe, Indicative–Subjunctive Syncretism in West Germanic............................... Giovanna  Rocca, Flamen sume samentum............................................................................ Peter Schrijver, British Celtic Light on the Latin Alternation of -l- and -ll- in Words of the Type cam¯elus, camellus................................................................................................ Aurelijus Viju¯nas, The Mechanism for Rhotacism Revisited: A Typological Parallel from East Asia ... Rex Wallace, A Preview of the Inscribed Stele of Vicchio............................................... Michael Weiss, Limited Latin Grassmann’s Law: Do We Need It?................................ Andreas Willi, Mars Gradivus............................................................................................. Olga T. Yokoyama, Control in Dangling Participles....................................................... Kazuhiko Yoshida, On the Prehistory of Hittite aušta and maušta................................ Index Verborum......................................................................................................................