Full Description
The collected papers in this book address an array of important issues in the field of Historical Linguistics and, specifically, Indo-European Linguistics, including different theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language organization and change, building on the strict relationship between Linguistics and Philology. The papers provide significant contributions to the understanding of aspects of variation, contact and reconstruction, reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from a large variety of languages. The themes that emerge from the papers center around two main research lines: 1. the relationship between language facts and historical accidents; 2. the relationship between grammatical categories and conceptual representations. The book is of interest for any reader seeking to gain insight into the nature of language organization and change.
Contents
Contents
Foreword
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Understanding Language Organization and Change: The Key Role of Indo-European Studies. An Introduction
Domenica Romagno and Francesco Rovai
1 Variation, Contact and Reconstruction in the Indo-European Studies: Divergent Paths?
Maria Patrizia Bologna
Part 1: Language Facts and Historical Accidents
2 Textual Multilingualism in 2nd Millennium BC Anatolia as a Heuristic of a Culture: The State-of-the-Art
Paola Cotticelli Kurras
3 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts in Roman Nijmegen: Insights from Theonyms and Non-Standard Variation in Latin Inscriptions
Francesca Cotugno
4 Revising a Syntactic Isogloss: Nominal Modifiers Marking in Indo-European Languages
Artemij Keidan
5 The Alphabetic Tradition of the Conexiones
Marco Mancini
6 Greek, Syriac and Iranian Loanwords in Ancient Armenian: Reflexes of Voiceless Stops in Word-Initial Position
Andrea Scala
Part 2: Grammatical Categories and Conceptual Representations
7 Spatial Cognition and Frames of Reference in Indo-European
Annamaria Bartolotta
8 Aspectual Distinctions under Direct Perception Predicates: The Interaction between Aspect and the Morphological Form of the Dependent Predicates
Davide Bertocci, Sira Rodeghiero and Emanuela Sanfelici
9 Anticausativization in Latin and Early Italo-Romance: The Semantics of Predicates and the Syntax of Voice
Michela Cennamo
10 Variation with Synonymous Suffixes between Derivation and Compounding in Ancient Greek
Francesco Dedè and Maria Margherita Cardella
11 Aspects of the Verbal Domain in Greek and Latin: Changing Valency and Actionality
Domenica Romagno
Index of Languages and Language Families
Subject Index
