Table of Contents

Preface............................................................................................................................ vii

Bibliography of Hans Henrich Hock........................................................................... ix

List of Contributors..................................................................................................... xxi

Anvita Abbi, Traces of Archaic Human Language Structure in the Great Andamanese Language.........................................................................

Shu-Fen Chen, A Study of Punctuation Errors in the Chinese Diamond Sutra Based on Sanskrit Texts..............................................................................................

Jennifer Cole and José I. Hualde, Prosodic Structure in Sound Change..............

Probal Dasgupta, Scarlet and Green: Phi-Inert Indo-Aryan Nominals in a Co-representation Analysis.............................................................................

Alice Davison, Reversible and Non-reversible Dative Subjects: A Structural Account ....

Madhav M. Deshpande, Sanskrit Traditions during the Rule of the Peshwas: Role, Maintenance, and Transition........................................................................

Jost Gippert, An Outline of the History of Maldivian Writing................................

Olav Hackstein, Polar Questions and Non-headed Conditionals in Cross-linguistic and Historical Perspective......................................................

Stephanie W. Jamison, RV sá hina´¯yám (VI..) with a Return Visit to na´¯yám and na´¯na¯

Brian Joseph, Aspirates, Fricatives, and Laryngeals in Avestan and Indo-Iranian.........

Jared S. Klein, Some Rhetorical Aspects of Adjacent Interstanzaic Phrasal Repetition in the Rigveda.

Kelly Lynne Maynard, Balkan Sprachbund Features in Samsun Albanian..........

H. Craig Melchert, Agreement Patterns in Old and Middle Hittite......................

Adriana Molina-Muñoz, Sanskrit Compounds and the Architecture of the Grammar.........

Don Ringe, The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe..................................

Steven Schäufele, Constituent Order in Song Lyrics..............................................

Marco Shappeck, Ecuadorian Andean Spanish ya: Contact, Grammaticalization, and Discursivization.

Benjamin Slade, Question Particles and Relative Clauses in the History of Sinhala, with Comparison to Early and Modern Dravidian....

Karumuri V. Subbarao and Rajesh Kumar, Aspects of Agreement in Hmar . .

Yasuko Suzuki, On Characterizing Sanskrit anusva¯ra ..............................................

Sarah Tsiang, Horses Lost, Found, and Jockeying for Position in the English Language...........