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This article studies the semantic field of generic words for 'stars', 'constellations', and 'planets' in Early Irish. The discussed Old Irish items are: 1. the hapax ser, 2. rind, 3. the doubtful rét, 4. rétglu, 5. gét, and 6.... more
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      Celtic Studies, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Celtic Linguistics, Old Irish Language and Literature
An addendum to https://www.academia.edu/3803289/Might_Hurro-Urartian_and_North-Caucasian_Languages_Be_Derived_from_or_Related_to_Indo-European

Contains 6 new isoglosses potentially connecting North Caucasian with Indo-European.
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      Indo-european language reconstruction, Indo-European Studies, Indo-European Linguistics, Proto Indo-European
This paper presents a systematic reassessment of STURTEVANT'S LAW (Sturtevant 1932), which governs the differing outcomes of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiced and voiceless obstruents in Hit-tite (Anatolian). I argue that STURTEVANT'S LAW... more
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      Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
This paper provides an overview of the agricultural lexicon of Balto-Slavic and aims to include all words that can be reconstructed for the Baltic and Slavic proto-languages. In our analysis, we distinguish between the words that can be... more
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      Indo-European Linguistics, Linguistic Palaeontology, History of Agriculture, Balto-Slavic Linguistics
Whether posited as an invasion by or migration of Aryans, these variant forms—of an into-India hypothesis (supposed movement into India around the second millennium BCE)—are underpinned by one constant: the consequence that the earliest... more
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      Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Indian ancient history, Indo-European Linguistics
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      Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Indo-European Linguistics
This part of our work has been released copyright free, provided that original credit is given. The second part of the ebook after the Tocharian section was written by Michael Schmidt and taken from his original writings. Since winter... more
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      Ancient Indo-European Languages, Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, Neolithic Archaeology, British Prehistory (Archaeology)
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      Translation Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Greek Language, Pragmatics
The current article investigates the tense usage in the speech conclusions with past reference in Homer ("so s/he said"). It starts by listing the different conclusions by verb and per tense, then discusses previous explanations and... more
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      Historical Linguistics, Greek Language, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Tense and Aspect Systems
In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (lines 227–30 ), Demeter promises to protect the prince of Eleusis, Demophon, from three dangers, namely ἐπηλυσίη ‘witchcraft’, ὑλοτόμος ‘the one who/which cuts wood’, and ὑποτάμνον ‘that which cuts under’.... more
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      Mythology And Folklore, Mythology, Greek Literature, Ancient Indo-European Languages
An addendum to https://www.academia.edu/3803289/Might_Hurro-Urartian_and_North-Caucasian_Languages_Be_Derived_from_or_Related_to_Indo-European

Contains 9 new etymologies connecting Hurro-Urartian with Indo-European
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      Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Hurrian, Indo-European Linguistics
The first three phonemes of Etruscan cezp 'eight' can be derived from PIE *h3ek̑t-(e)h3(u), via sound laws similar to the ones established for Lycian.
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      Indo-european language reconstruction, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Anatolian Languages
This article is part of an ongoing investigation into the meaning, origin and use of the augment in Early Greek prose and poetry and discusses the use and absence of the augment in the forms of the simplex ἔειπον / εἶπον in early epic... more
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      Homer, Greek Language, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Greek Epic
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      Historical Linguistics, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Indo-European Linguistics
The phonetical and phonological interpretation of Hittite is exceptionally complicated. This is due to the data being accessible only through a writing system symbolizing the spoken chain by signs, which does not prejudge the sound form... more
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      Phonology, Phonetics, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Anatolian Languages
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      Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, Semantics, Slavic Languages
par Émilia Ndiaye. — Le présent ouvrage a pour objectif d’initier les étudiants à la grammaire comparée en prenant le cas du latin et du grec. Il présente un bref historique de la méthode comparative concernant les langues... more
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      Indo-european language reconstruction, Greek Language, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Comparative Linguistics
Review article of Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., 2016. Argument Realization in Baltic. (Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, ) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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      Syntax, Morphology, Slavic Historical Linguistics, Slavic Linguistics
Semenenko A.A. Endemic Cattle of South Asia in Rigveda // Актуальные проблемы аграрной науки, производства и образования: материалы V международной научно-практической конференции молодых ученых и специалистов (на иностранных языках)... more
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      Indo-european language reconstruction, South Asian Studies, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies
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      Philology, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Digital Humanities