John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 585 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 97).
This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is divided in 8 sections: I. Indo-European, II. Anatolian, III. Indic, IV. Iranian and Armenian, V. Celtic, VI. Germanic Languages, VII. Slavic and Albanian, VIII. Fennougrica and Altaica.
Indo-EuropeanFormes de la racine *dei- ‘briller avec rotation’ - Françoise Bader
Zur vorgeschichte der idg. Dichterformeln - Enrico Campanile
Modal auxiliaries in proto-Indo-European - John R. Costello
Sur les verbes fréquentatifs et causatifs en Indo-Européen - Louis Deroy
Periphrastica homerohittitovedica - George Dunkel
On Indoeuropean laryngeals after word-initial s- - Henry M. Hoenigswald
Réflexions sur le “neutre”indo-européen - André Martinet
Monophthongization as the easing of an articulatory burden - William R. Schmalstieg
The indo-European vowels /a/ and /o/ revisited - Francisco Villar
AnatolianLuvio geroglifico MU-RU-WA-TÀ-ZA - Massimo Poetto
The anatolian and INdo-European fisrt person plural - Andrew L. Sihler
Reflexe der H-laute im Anatolischen - Robert Schmitt-Brandt
IndicRats, mice, and other small rodents in the Indian linguistic area - Murray B. Emeneau
Zur wurzel il im Sanskrit und Pali - Harry Falk
A critical examination of some early sanskrit passages alleged to indicate dialectal diversity - Hans Henrich Hock
Word formation in Gipsy languages - József Vekerdi
Iranian and ArmenianCalques iraniens en arménien - Giancarlo Bolognesi
The Armenian suffixes of iranian origin - Gevork B. Jahukian
Die goldschmiede im achiamenidischen Susa zu einem alten problem in der Inschrift DSf - Rüdiger Schmitt
CelticThe old Irish imperfect indicative - Anders Ahlqvist
The etymology of old Irish torc ‘boar’ - Kim R. McCone
Gall. @, pitt. @, ant. irl. — Det(i)chet - Filippo Motta
Germanic LanguagesBast und Bastard: ein versuch zu einer ungeklärten wortgruppe - Ernst S. Dick
Paradigm regularization and the Verschärfung - R.D. Fulk
OE sîd and stund in the old Germanic and Indo-European environment - Kurt R. Jankowsky
Braht und Brand. Zum althochdeutschen Hildebrandlied - Heinz Klingenberg
Variationen über das thema Birgitta - Piergiuseppe Scardigli
Slavic and AlbanianThe Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs - Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Über die form des Gen.-Dat. Pl. im Albanischen. Zur methode der vergleichenden sprachforschung
Fennougrica and AltaicaThe character and the scale of Turkic influence on the structure of Finno-Ugric languages - Gábor Bereczki
Lexical innovations of the Volga-Finnic epoch - Gyula Décsy
Rückblick auf die geschichte der lautbezeichnung der finnisch-ugrischen sprachen - György Lakó
Das Karpatenbecken zur Zeit der ungarischen langnahme - Gyula László
Beitrage zu den iranischen lehnwörtern der uralischen sprachen - Károly Rédei
Hullabaloo - Denis Sinor