Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 36)

This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé. Foreword 13 Contributors 15 Edgar C. Polomé: A biographical sketch 19 Bibliography of E. C. Polomé 20 Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt 39 On the origins of the Indo-European dative-locative singular endings 47 On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic inscriptions 61 Der indogermanische Aorist und das germanische Prateritum 73 Low German as a literary language in Schleswig-Holstein in the seventeenth century: A poem by Anna Ovena Hoyers 81 The origin of the Indo-European pronominal inflection 91 Meaning and pre-history of OIr. lúan láith 107 Gothic saihw and sai, with some notes on imperative interjections in Germanic 115 Pāṇini and the Northwestern dialect: Some suggestions on Sūtra 3.3.10 129 Post-script, errata, varia 141 On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain and Scandinavia 151 L’oubykh d’Evliya Çelebi: compléments 175 Ex Oriente Lux On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans 179 A bouquet of Armenian birds for Edgar Polomé 187 The Indo-European terms for ‘marriage’ 197 The development of Romani linguistics 201 The cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans 243 Language and ethnicity 253 On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex complements in some African languages 263 The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich 277 Zur Etymologie und Wortgeschichte von deutsch Amtsschimmel und Akt (in der Kunst) 287 Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature 297 An eastern etymon for sarape? 305 Orthographica onomastica 315 Old Irish boí ‘was’ 317 Topic-prominence and zero NP-anaphora in Marathi and Hindi 327 Yima et la mort 347 Competing generalizations and linguistic change 353 Ostgermanische Relikte im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum 365 Vestjysk stød, Icelandic preaspiration, and Proto-Indo-European glottalic stops 371 Adhikāra – right and responsibility 377 Some problems in the translation of Beowulf 383 “The Divine Twins” or “The Twins ... Divine?” 391 The druids and human sacrifice 399 Some remarks on ‘laryngeals’ and Celtic 415 L’extraposition du prédicat verbal dans les créoles à base lexicale anglaise et française 419 Les champs sémantiques de la racine *H2ei-g- en grec 437 Le système des modes en latin classique: présentation fonctionnaliste 457 The Sacred Marriage – a study in Norse mythology 467 Zum Verhaltnis der grammatischen Kategorien Person und Modus im Indogermanischen 479 Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary 493 The Horn of Gallehus and the subgrouping of the Germanic languages 507 Sacerdos ‘qui sacrum dat’, sacrum dare and sacra facere in ancient Italy 527 On the source of Hittite halzai- 543 Sul nome dei ‘Veneti’ 547 The impact of language (morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf redux 553 Damned in-laws and other problems 569 Tense vs. aspect in Sango and Swahili of Lubumbashi 583 The role of the Tamil film in language change and political change 599 Comments on some of the Indo-European medio-passive endings 609 On Armenian phonology and Indo-European reconstruction 619 Talk about tu and vous 629 Heroic ethical philosophy and philosophical consolation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 639 Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Anreger einer niederlandisch-sprachigen Neuphilologie 649 Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture 667 Bilingualism and mother tongue education 687 Na sthātavyam (‘Not Being Stayed’) in The Eight-Thousand-Line Perfection-of-Wisdom Sutra 699 The languages of the peoples of the USSR 707 The role of continental contacts for Scandinavian glottogenesis with special reference to the enclitic passive 733 Umlaut-disrupting factors in Germanic 749 Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindu-Urdu 759 Die innergermanische Lautverschiebung und die Entstehung der germanischen und deutschen Dialekte 767 Translation: Minimizing errors in the thought process 781 Cardinal points and other directions in Tocharian A and B 793 This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polome.