Full Description
This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985). Cowgill's dazzling mastery of the entire Indo-European linguistic world is on full display, with every work a model of expert methodology and depth of thinking. Two previously unpublished pieces, one on the origin of the z-pronouns in Germanic and the other the full version of his article on the personal endings of thematic verbs in Indo-European, appear here for the first time. The volume also includes over a half-dozen personal reminiscences by former colleagues and students, plus a valuable and engaging autobiographical letter written shortly before Cowgill's untimely death. Each article has been carefully re-typeset and edited to give a handsome and unified look to the volume.
Contents
Prelude
Introduction............................................................................................................... vii
Bibliography of Warren Cowgill.......................................................................... xxi
Dissertations Directed by Warren Cowgill............................................................ xxv
Reminiscences Offered at the Memorial Service.............................................. xxvii
Warren Cowgill as Teacher...................................................................................... xli
Cowgill on Cowgill: Autobiographical Letter to the LSA Archives.................. xlvii
Writings
GENERAL INDO-EUROPEAN
A Search for Universals in Indo-European Diachronic Morphology..................... 1
Indo-European Languages........................................................................................ 19
More Evidence for Indo-Hittite: The Tense-Aspect Systems....................................... 37
Anatolian hi-Conjugation and Indo-European Perfect: Instalment II.......................... 53
The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European.................................... 69
INDO-IRANIAN
The Aorists and Perfects of Old Persian....................................................................... 77
The First Person Singular Medio-Passive of lndo-Iranian.................................... 85
On the Origin of the Indic es-Precative....................................................................... 93
GREEK
Greek ou and Armenian oc'.......................................................................................... 99
Common Sense and Laryngeal Theory: A Reply to Mr. Rosen's Rejoinder............ 103
The Supposed Cypriote Optatives duwdnoi and dokoi,
with Notes on the Greek Infinitive Formations................................................ 117
Evidence in Greek......................................................................................................... 137
Ancient Greek Dialectology in the Light of Mycenaean 173
Agtin : ageiro: A New r/n-Alternation........................................................................................ 187
ITALO - CELTIC
Italic and Celtic Superlatives and the Dialects of Indo-European......................... 191
ITALIC
The Source of Latin.stare, with Notes on Comparable Forms Elsewhere in Indo-European .... 227
The Source of Latin vis 'Thou Wilt'.......................................................................... 251
The Second Plural of the Umbrian Verb.............................................................. 267
CELTIC
Old Irish teoir and cetheoir....................................................................................... 277
On the Fate of'-'w in Old Irish..................................................................................... 281
A Note on Palatalization in Old Irish........................................................................ 291
The Origins of the Insular Celtic Conjunct and Absolute Verbal Endings ................ 299
Two Further Notes on the Origin of the Insular Celtic Absolute and Conjunct Verb Endings ..... 323
The Etymology of lrish guidid and the Outcome of *l'g"'h in Celtic................ 329
On the Prehistory of Celtic Passive and Deponent Inflection................................. 353
On the Origin of the Absolute and Conjunct Verbal Inflexion of Old Irish............ 387
GERMANIC
The Inflection of the Germanic o-Presents..................................................................... 395
Gothic iddja and Old English eode........................................................... 409
The Old English Present Indicative Ending -e............................................................. 427
PIE *,:,du110 ' 2' in Germanic and Celtic, and the Nom.-Acc. Dual of Non-Neuter a-Stems ... 433
Loss of Morphophonemic Alternation in Moribund Categories,
as Exemplified in the Gothic Verb .......................................................... 441
TOCHARIAN
Ablaut, Accent, and Umlaut in the Tocharian Subjunctive..................................... 445
BALTO·SLAVIC
The Nominative Plural and Preterit Singular of the Active Participles in Baltic ................... 451
REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
Review of Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse...................................................... 463
Review of Krahe, Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft.......................................... 469
Review of Puhvel, Laryngeals and the Indo-Eitropean Verb.................................... 473
Review of Mayrhofer, Sanskrit-Grammatik............................................................... 497
Comment on Wailes, "The Origins of Settled Farming in Temperate Europe" ................. 501
Review of Schmidt and Kodderitzsch (eds.), Indogermanisch und Kcltisch........... 503
Book Notice of Erhart, Indoevropske jazyky.............................................................. 507
Review of Arbeitman and Bombard (eds.), Bono Homini Donum:
Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J Alexander Kerns ....... 509
AUS DEM NACHLASS
The z-Cases of Germanic Pronouns and Strong Adjectives 519
The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European (longer version) .......... 535
Index of Forms 569
