Indo-European Perspectives Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies [Hardcover]

This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient world. The volume is a tribute to Anna Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement as the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.

The book's six parts are concerned with the early history of Indo-European (Part I); language use, variation, and change in ancient Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European languages of Western Europe, including Latin, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the ancient Indo-Iranian and Tocharian languages (Part V); and the history of Indo-European linguistics (Part VI).

Indo-European Perspectives will interest scholars and students of Indo-European philology, historical linguistics, classics, and the history of the ancient world.


Part I
Indo-European
1. Il perfetto indoeuropeo tra endomorfismo e esomorfismo,Professor Dr Paolo Di Giovine
2. Particles and Personal Pronouns: Inclusive *me and Exclusive *we,Professor Dr George Dunkel
3. Etymology and History: For a Study of 'Medical Language' in Indo-European,Profess D. R. Langslow
4. The Stative Value of the PIE Verbal Suffix *-eh1-,Professor Dr. C. J. Ruijgh
5. The Third Donkey. Origin Legends and Some Hidden Indo-European Themes,Professor Calvert Watkins
Part II
Greek
6. Spoken Language and Written Text: The Case of alloeid??a (Hom. Od. 13.194),Professor Dr Albio Cassio
7. Social Dialect in Attica,Professor Stephen Colvin
8. The Attitude of the Athenian StateTowards the Attic Dialect in the Classical Era,Professor Dr ElS