Ancient Indo-European Languages Between Linguistics and Philology : Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Foreword (Aikhenvald) -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction (Bianconi and Capano) -- ‎Chapter 1. Divine Witnesses in Greece and Anatolia: Iliad 3.276-280 between Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction (Bianconi) -- ‎Chapter 2. Achaemenid Elamite and Old Persian Indefinites: A Comparative View (Briceño Villalobos) -- ‎Chapter 3. Phenomena of Spirantization and Language Contact in Greek Sicilian Inscriptions: The Case of ΤΡΙΑΙΝΤΑ (Capano) -- ‎Chapter 4. Egyptian Greek: A Contact Variety (Dahlgren) -- ‎Chapter 5. Substrate Matters (Fanciullo) -- ‎Chapter 6. Natural Language Use and Bilingual Interference: Verbal Complementation Patterns in Post-Classical Greek (Fendel) -- ‎Chapter 7. Where Does Dionysus Ὕης Come From? (Massetti) -- ‎Chapter 8. Alignment Change and Changing Alignments: Armenian Syntax and the First 'Death' of Parthian (Meyer) -- ‎Chapter 9. Rewriting the Law: Diachronic Variation and Register in Greek and Hittite Legal Language (Shields) -- ‎Chapter 10. Lexical Variation in Young Avestan: the Problem of the 'Ahuric' and 'Daevic' Vocabularies Revisited (Tucker) -- ‎Chapter 11. Greek ἄγυρις 'gathering' between Dialectology and Indo-European Reconstruction (Batisti) -- ‎Chapter 12. Here's to a Long Life! Albanian Reflections of Proto-Indo-European Semantics (Joseph) -- ‎Index.

This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on contact, variation, and reconstruction, and with methods that straddle the divide between Linguistics and Philology.

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