Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

The honoree of this __Festschrift__ has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification. Werner Winter: Publications 1949—2003 11 Introduction: Werner Winter, ad multos annos 25 Patterns of stress and rhythm in Tocharian B prosody 29 Old Irish masu ‘if is’ and similar forms 41 On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts 47 A concept of truth for linguistic semantics 63 Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian B -e- presents without initial palatalization 91 Some thoughts on ‘Universals’ 105 Latin static morphology and paradigm families 115 Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan 129 Some taboo-words in Iranian languages of Central Asia 149 Apposition and word-order typology in Indo-European 159 Reading Molière’s The Learned Ladies – remarks on (im)politeness 181 Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism? Lessons from the past for the present and the future 195 On the origin of Tocharian terms for GRAIN 217 The Hittite reflexive construction in a typological perspective 239 Praise and Honor (Gothic hazjan, Old English hergan, and Russian čest’) 261 The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite 269 Realism in Indo-European Linguistics 273 Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian 285 Categorizing the Japanese lexicon. A proposal with a background 299 Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal 315 ‘But’ without switch-reference 321 Fresh shoots from a vigourous stem: IE *u?ih1ró- 341 On the tracks of the Tocharian Guru 359 Eventide in Hatti-land 375 An integrated view on ablaut and accent in Indo-European 379 An early rule of syncope in Tocharian 387 The Latin imperfect in -bā-, the Proto-Indo-European root *bhu̯eh2- and full grade I forms from seṭ-roots with full grade II 391 Conceptualization of agency in contemporary Polish 413 Ouvrier, Arbeiter, workman, rabočij, obrero, operaio 433 Classical Armenian HAGAG ‘breath’ and OGEM ‘to speak’ 447 Index 457 Index of examples 467 Tabula Gratulatoria 469 TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.

Review text: "There is every sign that this Festschrift will also be referred to in twenty years time, not only for the articles on Indo-European by well-known Indo-Eurpeanistst, but also for some of the other topics covered here, which range from (im)politeness in Molière through witch reference in American Indian languages to Tibeto-Burman. The range and acuity of the contributions is an appropriate tribute to the work of the honorand."James Clackson in: Kratylos, 50, 2005 A very substantial portion of the Tocharian B literature that remains to us is poetical in form, very largely translations of poetry in Buddhist religious works originally composed in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit1.