About the Book
This two-volume collection of papers was brought together in honor of Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volumes contain 70 papers, most of which deal with Indo-European (historical) linguistics.
Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. List of publications of Oswald Szemerenyi; 3. Syntax: Conjecture and fact (by Akhmanova, Olga); 4. Word order typology and prepositions in Old Indic (by Andersen, Paul Kent); 5. Generative grammar and language change: Irreconcilable concepts? (by Anttila, Raimo); 6. Sonoritat und Lautwandel (by Back, Michael); 7. Why but implies although: A functional approach (by Bailey, Charles-James); 8. Die Auffalligkeit und das Universale (by Birkhan, Helmut J.R.); 9. Typological studies and the identification of the Indo-European laryngeals (by Bomhard, Allan R.); 10. Mehrsprachigkeit, Diglossie und Sprachprobleme in Skandinavien (by Braumuller, Kurt); 11. Bemerkungen zu den Phrasenkomposita (by Brogyanyi, Bela); 12. Zur Struktur des kurdischen Verbs (by Bynon, Theodora); 13. Typologische Rekonstruktion und Indogermanisch (by Campanile, Enrico); 14. Sui numerali da "1" a "5" in anatolico e indoeuropeo (by Carruba, Onofrio); 15. The Aeolic dative plural (by Chadwick, John); 16. A semantic approach to the identification of Iranian loanwords in Armenian (by Considine, Patrick); 17. Altirisch duas (by Corthals, Johan); 18. Kukko kiekuu und kaki kukkuu (by Decsy, Gyula); 19. The vowel phonemes of Khotanese (by Emmerick, Ronald E.); 20. Due note epigrafiche di morfologia greca (by Gallavotti, Carlo); 21. Uber den Sinn der slavischen offenen Silbe (by Galton, Herbert); 22. Hierarchical relationships of dominance as phonological universals and their implications for Indo-European reconstruction (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.); 23. No Old Persion spathetamaida (by Gershevitch, Ilya); 24. Eblaite and its affinities (by Gordon, Cyrus H.); 25. Struttura lessicale e prestito (by Gusmani, Roberto); 26. Subjectless verbs and the primacy of the predicate in Romance and Latin (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.); 27. Formal vs. functional considerations in phonology (by Halle, Morris); 28. On syllabic reduction and syntax (by Hamp, Eric P.); 29. Der Vorgang der Begegnung: Eine historisch-kontrastive Studie zum Irischen, Englischen und Lateinischen (by Hartmann, Hans); 30. Structural evidence on the reality of literary punning (by Hill, Archibald A.); 31. gamma phiupsilonrhoalpha: A Semitic loan-word? (by Hooker, James T.); 32. Die syntaktischen Universalien (by Ivanescu, Gheorghe); 33. On non-volitional verbal constructions in Indo-European (by Ivanov, Vyacheslav); 34. Linguistique genetique et typologique: Remarques epistemologiques (by Jucquois, Guy); 35. L'importance de William Dwight Whitney pour les jeunes linguistes de Leipzig et pour F. de Saussure (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 36. Schleicher's tale after a century (by Lehmann, Winfred P.); 37. The diachronic possibilities of the Indo-European 'amplified' sentence: A case history from anatolian (by McCone, Kim R.); 38. Latinate diglossia in Finno-Ugric: Could Hungarian have become a Romance language? (by Makkai, Adam); 39. Semantic universals, lexical polarization, taboo. The Romance domain of 'left' and 'right' revisited (by Malkiel, Yakov); 40. L'apophonie e/o en grec (by Manczak, Witold); 41. Quelques lectures nouvelles sur les inscriptions louvites hieroglyphiques d'Emirgazi (by Masson, Emilia); 42. Remarques sur les noms en -alphasigmaf en attiques (by Masson, Olivier); 43. Lautliche Interferenzen - Ursachen und Wirkungen am Beispiel Italienisch-Zimbrisch (by Meid, Wolfgang); 44. Die lateinisch-romanischen Verbalbildungen mit Prafixen. Als Beispiel: die Familie von lat. ramus (by Meier, Harri); 45. The Luwian languages and the Hittite -hi conjugation (by Morpurgo Davies, Anna); 46. On the origins of the Greek hexameter: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives (by Nagy, Gregory); 47. Le denominazioni della "confinazione tra campi e tra prati" nei dialetti friulani e alpini (by Pellegrini, Giovan Battista); 48. Pour une syntaxe de la langue parlee: La construction anglaise a redoublement (by Pilch, Herbert); 49. Due xenia augurali (by Pisani, Vittore); 50. Luvio geroglifico SAR+r(-a) KAT-ta (by Poetto, Massimo); 51. Creolization theory and linguistic prehistory (by Polome, Edgar C.); 52. The voiceless bilabial spirant in Indo-European (by Pulgram, Ernst); 53. Die idg. Wurzel *reudh- im Lateinischen (by Risch, Ernst); 54. Abstrakte Komplemente in Urindogermanischen (by Rix, Helmut); 55. Sexist language and the competence/performance distinction (by Saporta, Sol); 56. Rekonstruktion grundsprachlicher Satzbauplane (by Schrerer, Anton); 57. Uber einige Universalien tierischer und menschlicher Kommunikation (by Schlerath, Bernfried); 58. Universals, explanation, and a minor problem of Hittite phonology (by Schmalstieg, William R.); 59. Zur Vorgeschichte des indogermanischen Genussystems (by Schmidt, Karl Horst); 60. phiepsilonrho -omicroniotakappaomicronsigmaf - omicroniotakappaomicron-phi rhoomicronsigmaf und die wechselnde Stellung des Verbalbestandteiles bei einigen griechischen Komposita (by Schulze, Rolf); 61. Etymology as an operational principle (by Seiler, Hansjakob); 62. Phonologische Regelhierarchie oder Wortbildung? (Lat. floralis, Cerialis und Zugehoriges) (by Strunk, Klaus); 63. Zu den syntaktischen Grundlagen der Nominalkomposition: Die Reihenfolge der Teilglieder (by Tischler, Johann); 64. Logic, epistemology, and Prague phonological ideas (by Toman, Jindrich); 65. Das Irische und die Typologie (by Tovar, Antonio); 66. Ein Fall der Typologie: Das Problem der 'alten Arier' und die arische Trennung (by Trubacev, Oleg N.); 67. Contribution a l'interpretation du vocabulaire hittite et indo-europeen (by Windekens, A.J. van); 68. Synchronie, diachronie et evolution des langues: Quelques considerations theoriques (by Vraciu, Ariton); 69. Global syntactic diffusion (by Wallace, Stephen); 70. Kongruenz wird zu Diskontinuitat im Deutschen (by Werner, Otmar); 71. On the importance of links not missing (by Winter, Werner)
