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The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition.
Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any
language. The present volume presents detailed grammatical
descriptions of how comparison and gradation are expressed in
ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to
the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge.
Each chapter is structured the same way to facilitate
cross-reference and (typological) comparison. The data are
presented in a top-down fashion and in a format easily accessible
to the linguistic community. The topics covered are similatives,
equatives, comparatives, superlatives, elatives, and excessives.
Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed examples of all
its attested grammatical realizations. The book is an indispensable
tool for typologists, historical linguists, and students of the
syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.
The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding
of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting
point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate
field of research.
Ablaut--the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found, for
example, in the English verb "sing" (sing, sang, sung)--is one of
the most characteristic features of the Indo-European languages.
"Indo-European Accent and Ablaut" investigates the relationship
between ablaut and accent in Indo-European languages and in their
predecessor--Proto-Indo-European. It offers a thorough overview of
the most recent scholarship on ablaut and accent by some of today's
most expert linguists. With attention to both theoretical
understandings and specific linguistic materials, the contributors
discuss an array of empirical and methodological issues in
researching these key linguistic phenomena, and in doing so they
open up new horizons for research.
Die Habilitationsschrift des 1996 verstorbenen Munchner
Finnougristen und Indogermanisten Hartmut Katz ist aus dessen
langjahriger Beschaftigung mit der Lautlehre des Uralischen
erwachsen, wobei den arischen Lehnwortern eine wichtige
Kontrollfunktion zukam. Die Arbeit bietet einen Extrakt aus der
geplanten uralischen Lautgeschichte und eine Substitutionslehre.
Das "Herzstuck" der Arbeit besteht aus den nach Sachgruppen
geordneten Lehnetymologien. Die Verbreitung der uralischen Belege
kombiniert mit lautlichen Kriterien ergab eine prinzipiell klare
Schichtung der arischen Lehnworter in den uralischen Sprachen.
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