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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Philomen Probert; Andreas Willi |
ISBN: | 9780199609925 0199609926 |
OCLC Number: | 876658783 |
Description: | XXIII, 393 p. ; 26 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction ; PART I: LINGUISTICS 'LAWS' IN PRE-MODERN THOUGHT ; 2. Fern do frestol na. u. consaine: Perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish ; PART II: RULES OF LANGUAGE CHANGE AND LINGUISTIC METHOLOGY ; 3. Cladistic Principles and Linguistic Reality: The case of West Germanic ; 4. Older Runic Evidence for Northwest Germanic a-umlaut of u (and 'the converse of Polivanov's Law') ; 5. A Law Unto Themselves? An Acoustic Phonetic Study of 'Tonal' Consonants in British Panjabi ; 6. Kurylowicz's First 'Law of Analogy' and the Development of Passive periphrases in Latin ; 7. Phonetic Laws, Relative and Absolute Chronology, Language Diffusion and the Drift: The loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC ; PART III: SEGMENTAL SOUND LAWS: NEW PROPOSALS AND REASSESSMENTS ; 8. A Rule of Deaspiration in Ancient Greek ; 9. Regular Sound Change and Word-initial in Armenian ; 10. Schrijver's Rules for British and Proto-Celtic *-o- and *-u- Before a Vowel ; PART IV: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONS ; 11. Origins of the Greek Law of Limitation ; 12. Re-examining Lindeman's Law ; 13. Exon's Law and the latin Syncopes ; PART V: SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES ; 14. Brugmann's Law: The problem of Indo-Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives ; 15. Kiparsky's Rule, Thematic Nasal Presents and Athematic verba vocalia in Greek ; PART VI: SYNCHRONIC LAWS AND RULES IN SYNTAX AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS ; 16. Praetor urbanus - urbanus praetor: Some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin ; 17. The Rules of Politeness and Latin Request Formulae ; References ; General Index ; Index of Words |
Responsibility: | edited by Philomen Probert and Andreas Willi. |
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