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Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky
NY :
Beech Stave Press, 2018.
Under the general editorship: L. van Beek, A. Kloekhorst, G. Kroonen
Over thirty specialists in Indo-European linguistics have contributed this elegant volume in honor of Prof. Sasha Lubotsky of Leiden University. Besides giving an excellent snapshot of the research currently being undertaken by his students and colleagues at that institution, Farnah contains contributions from well-known scholars across the world covering topics in Tocharian, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Anatolian linguistics, to name a few.
Starostin G., , in : Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. : NY : Beech Stave Press, 2018. Ch. 28. P. 327-334.
The paper discusses certain aspects of Indo-Uralic reconstruction, focusing on a comparison of our theoretical expectations from the comparison of Indo-European and Uralic basic lexicon with the actual results of lexicostatistical analysis. ...
Added: August 21, 2019
Kulikov L., , in : Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. : NY : Beech Stave Press, 2018. P. 153-161.
This paper discusses possible etymological connections of two Vedic forms that are considered problematic in Mayrhofer’s etymological dictionary, ¯ahanás- ‘lustful, obscene’ and jaghána- ‘genitals, pubis’.
I argue that there are good reasons to connect these formations with the root han ‘beat, strike, hit, kill’ (< PIE *gwhen-), originally probably denoting repeated strikes or lashes. This meaning could easily develop the ...
Added: October 13, 2020
L. : Routledge, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within the Indo-European language family.
With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and ...
Added: October 18, 2020
Starostin G., Journal of Language Relationship 2021 Vol. 19 No. 1-2 P. 99-135
The paper is the first in a planned two-part series, whose main goals are to conduct a general lexicostatistical survey of the Tuu, or South Khoisan, family of languages; to reconstruct a reliable approximation of the Swadesh wordlist for Proto-Tuu; and to clarify certain as of yet unresolved issues about the internal classification of Tuu ...
Added: October 9, 2021
Starostin G., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1-2 P. 25-70
The paper is the second part of an extensive study aimed at clarifying the internal relationships within the Tuu (Southern Khoisan) linguistic family of South Africa and reconstructing a reasonably accurate Swadesh wordlist for Proto-Tuu. In this section, I first investigate the issue of extensive areal contact between two languages belonging to two different subgroups ...
Added: October 28, 2022
Starostin G., Faits de langues 2016 Vol. 47 No. 1 P. 177-200
In the paper, it is argued that, in order to conduct lexicostatistical studies for families whose protolanguages are reconstructed on a step-by-step basis, it is important to define and describe a specific methodology for reconstructing "proto-wordlists" of the Swadesh type. Unlike the most common types of comparative-historical reconstruction, which largely focus on phonetic correspondences, a ...
Added: October 20, 2017
Starostin G., М. : Дело, 2016
Книга, написанная в жанре диалога с представителями Московской школы ком- паративистики, представляет собой доступное изложение теоретических и методо- логических оснований, на которых оказывается возможной реконструкция древних праязыков, к которым восходит современное языковое разнообразие. Основная цель издания — доходчиво объяснить, чем реконструкция глубоких праязыковых состояний, таких как праностратический или прасино-кавказский, отличается от реконструкции более мелких праязыков, ...
Added: October 18, 2017
Zhivlov M., International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2022 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 41-59
This paper analyses a number of morphophonological alternations in the Yukaghir languages with the aim of the internal reconstruction of pre-Proto-Yukaghir. The main focus is on the simplification of complex consonant clusters arising on morphological boundaries between consonant-final root allomorphs and derivational suffixes. The paper also contains a new reconstruction of Proto-Yukaghir and pre-Proto- Yukaghir ...
Added: October 14, 2022
Starostin G., Kassian A., Zhivlov M., The Journal of Indo-European Studies 2015 Vol. 43 No. 3/4 P. 301-347
In this paper we discuss the results of an automated compari-son between two 50-item groups of the most generally stable elements on the so-called Swadesh wordlist as reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic. Two forms are counted as potentially related if their first two consonantal units, transcribed in simplified consonantal class notation (a rough variant of ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Starostin G., М. : Языки славянской культуры, 2017
«Languages of Africa: an attempt at a lexicostatistical classification» has been planned as a multi-volume monograph that aims at a complete, step-by-step re-evaluation of current hypotheses on the genetic classification of most of the languages, currently or until recently spoken on the African continent. The relevance of this task goes far beyond
the current needs and issues of historical linguistics. ...
Added: February 11, 2018
Zhivlov M., International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2023 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 267-288
The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the Proto-Nivkh accent system and vocalism with the help of loanword analysis and internal reconstruction. It is shown that the place of the Proto-Nivkh accent depended on vowel height and syllable structure. The paper also argues that the unstressed vowel loss, which led to a radical change in Nivkh phonotactics, ...
Added: January 17, 2024
Zhivlov M., Etnografia 2019 No. 3 P. 167-180
The article analyzes an areal polysemy ‘earth/year’ in the languages of North America. The distribution of the trait largely coincides with the cultural region of California. Within this area, the polysemy ‘earth/year’ is attested from Molala in the north to Seri in the south. The trait in question is apparently old in Yuman, Chumashan and ...
Added: November 19, 2019
Brill, 2019
In The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European some of the world’s leading experts in historical linguistics shed new light on two hypotheses about the prehistory of the Indo-European language family, the so-called Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. The Indo-Anatolian hypothesis states that the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family should be viewed as a sister language of ‘classical’ Proto-Indo-European, the ...
Added: November 19, 2019
Starostin G., М. : Языки славянской культуры, 2014
Второй том многотомного исследования «Языки Африки. Опыт построения лексикостатистической классификации» целиком посвящен проблеме исторического статуса восточносуданской семьи языков — крупнейшего из составных компонентов т. н. «нило-сахарской» макросемьи, одного из наиболее спорных языковых объединений, предложенных Дж. Гринбергом в рамках получившей классический статус таксономической модели языков Африки.
Исследование потенциальных генетических и ареальных связей между языками восточносуданской семьи в ...
Added: October 18, 2017
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2023 Vol. 21 No. 1-2 P. 57-68
This paper offers a number of additions and corrections to the corpus of etymologies published in Irina Nikolaeva’s A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (De Gruyter, 2006). The focus of the paper is on internal Yukaghir etymology rather than on search for loanwords or long-range cognates. ...
Added: November 14, 2023
Starostin G., Касьян А. С., Шаги/Steps 2015 С. 208-214
One of the most important issues in modern historical linguistics is that of verifcation of hypotheses of deep level relationship between various linguistic families. Most noncontroversial theories of genetic relationship do not deal with time depths that surpass 5 or 6 thousand years ago, and the classic comparative method is often found insuffcient to reliably ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1-2 P. 71-80
This paper presents a number of additions and corrections to the corpus of etymologies published in Irina Nikolaeva’s “A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir” (De Gruyter, 2006). The focus of the paper is on internal Yukaghir etymology rather than on search for loanwords or long-range cognates. ...
Added: October 14, 2022
Starostin G., Language in Africa 2022 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 352-367
In this paper, I argue against a recent attempt at re-classifying the small group of Berta languages, spoken in Ethiopia, as being closely related to the geographically adjacent East Jebel group, based on numerous lexical similarities between the two taxa. It is suggested that the best method to determine if these similarities are due to ...
Added: October 28, 2022
Starostin G., Etnograficeskoe Obozrenie 2021 No. 4 P. 43-50
The paper offers a critical analysis of several Afrasian etymologies with presumably “military” semantics, put forward by Alexander Militarev. The conclusion is that these etymologies typically suffer from multiple problems, such as lack of proper attention to the historical typology of semantic shifts and insufficient consideration for the distribution of potential reflexes in daughter languages. ...
Added: October 15, 2021
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018
This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with ...
Added: November 4, 2019
Zhivlov M., В кн. : Hämeenmaalta Jamalille: kirja Tapani Salmiselle. : Helda Open Books, 2022. С. 361-375.
Традиционная классификация уральских языков предполагает последовательное бинарное ветвление сначала на самодийские и финно-угорские языки, затем финно-угорских – на угорские и финно-пермские, затем финно-пермских – на пермские и финно-волжские, и, наконец, финно-волжских – на волжские и финно-саамские. Признание за промежуточными узлами в этом дереве генетического статуса (т.е. наличия соответствующих праязыков) предполагает, что эти праязыки должны были ...
Added: April 8, 2022
Dybo A., Этнографическое обозрение 2021 № 4 С. 50-62
The article explicates some methodological principles that should be observed when working with the reconstruction of semantic tokens to the proto-linguistic level, and criticizes the insufficiently clear observance of them in the version of the Afrasian lexical reconstruction proposed in Alexander Militarev’s article on the “Lexical Reconstruction for the Reconstruction of the Prehistory: Proto-Afrasian Terms ...
Added: September 12, 2021
Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North ...
Added: October 3, 2018
Keidan A., Kulikov L., Lavidas N., Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 2020 Vol. 56 No. 3 P. 373-377
This paper gives a short survey of the morphosyntactic features shared by several branches or individual languages within Indo-European, grouping together, traditionally called isoglosses, such as verbal augment or the development of the new agglutinating cases. Subsequently, the authors offer a brief overview of the contribution to this special issue of the journal dedicated to ...
Added: October 13, 2020
Санжеев Г. Д., Орловская М. Н., Шевернина З. В., Институт востоковедения РАН, 2018
The Dictionary is the first attempt at compiling an etymological dictionary of indecomposable (root) words of Mongol languages. The creation of the Dictionary took over 40 years. It was originally compiled as early as 1973, and by 1996 it was once more revised and amplified by M.N. Orlovskaya and Z.V. Shevernina. All its authors are ...
Added: February 28, 2019
Widmer M., Auderset S., Nichols J. et al., Language 2017 Vol. 93 No. 4 P. 799-826
Some languages constrain the recursive embedding of NPs to some specific morphosyntactic
types, allowing it for example only with genitives but not with bare juxtaposition. In
Indo-European, every type of NP embedding — genitives, adjectivizers, adpositions, head
marking, or juxtaposition — is unavailable for syntactic recursion in at least one attested
language. In addition, attested pathways of change show ...
Added: November 14, 2017