Variation, Contact, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages

Between Linguistics and Philology
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50885-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Romagno, Domenica

Rovai, Francesco

Bianconi, Michele

Capano, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Domenica Romagno, Ph.D. (2004), Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include morphosyntax/semantics interface, linguistic categorization and change, verb systems and argument coding strategies in ancient (and modern) Indo-European languages, neural correlates of word classes, language processing in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). She has recently published the article The extension of a linguistic category: middle voice in Homeric Greek between subject affectedness, reflexivity and possession ("Archivio Glottologico Italiano" 2021/1. 3-42).

Francesco Rovai, Ph.D. (2008), University of Pisa, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the same university. His research interests include sociolinguistic variation and language change in Latin (with particular reference to phenomena of alignment variation and case syncretism), as well as aspects of multilingualism and language contact in the Ancient Mediterranean. He is currently working on the dialectics between orthography and palaeography in Republican Latin.

Michele Bianconi, DPhil (2019), University of Oxford, is Post-Doctoral researcher at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Lecturer in Classics at St Hilda’s College (University of Oxford), and Fellow of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. His research focuses on language contact in the ancient world, in particular in the Graeco-Anatolian area, as well as Greek and Anatolian linguistics, as well as Indo-European reconstruction. He recently edited Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece (Brill, 2021).

Marta Capano, Ph.D. (2020), University of Naples “L’Orientale”, is is Post-Doctoral researcher at Ghent University. She has been Visiting Senior Associate Member at the ASCSA and Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the Greek language in Sicily and Greek-Latin language contact. She has written papers and given talks on bilingualism in the ancient world, Greek phonology, Greek in southern Italy and Sicily, and Romance linguistics. She is co-editor of the volume In amicitia tua memores et grati (Pisa University Press, 2019).