Untersuchungen zu den baltischen Sprachen
Biographical note
Daniel Petit, Ph.D. (1996) in Greek Linguistics, Habilitation (2002) in Baltic Linguistics, University of Sorbonne, is Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). He has published extensively on Baltic Linguistics including Apophonie et catégories grammaticales dans les langues baltiques (2004).
Readership
All those interested in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as General Linguistics.
Reviews
"This book is a useful introduction to certain aspects of historical Baltic linguistics not only for students of Baltic languages and those of historical, especially Indo-European, linguistics but also those interested in language typology will profit from the investigations presented here." Felix Thies, Journal of Baltic Studies 42/4 (2011), pp. 553-555
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Being an in-depth study of the syntax and semantics of infinitives in Early Vedic, this book gives a comprehensive account of the various types of infinitive use attested. Furthermore, heuristics are given for identifying infinitives in ancient languages.
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The subjunctive is one of the most central categories of the Tocharian verbal system. A thorough analysis of its meaning and formation is the basis for a careful reconstruction of the Proto-Tocharian stage and its derivation from the Indo-European proto-language.
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In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects all the words from the Celtic languages which contained a laryngeal, and identifies the regular results of the laryngeals in each phonetic environment.
€128.00$176.00
This book describes the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of Sabellian demonstratives. It contains new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of these grammatical items’ Italic origins based on typological principles.
€137.00$177.00
Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.
€158.00$205.00
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of the verbal system of the two Tocharian languages together with an index listing attested verbal forms and offering semantic and etymological information. The material is based on philological evaluation and incorporates hitherto unpublished ...
€153.00$198.00
Luvian is the language of Anatolian hieroglyphic inscriptions and a close relative of Hittite. This book reconstructs the ethnic history of the Luvians through sociolinguistic methods with an emphasis on the interpretation of linguistic contacts.
€164.00$212.00
Taking an approach that combines philological, linguistic, and ritual analysis, Michael Weiss sheds light on many obscure interpretive cruces and also constructs a coherent theory of the entire ritual performance described on Tables III and IV of the Tabulae Iguvinae.
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