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The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill

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This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor...
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This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985). Cowgill's dazzling mastery of the entire Indo-European linguistic world is on full display, with every work a model of expert methodology and depth of thinking. Two previously unpublished pieces, one on the origin of the z-pronouns in Germanic and the other the full version of his article on the personal endings of thematic verbs in Indo-European, appear here for the first time. The volume also includes over a half-dozen personal reminiscences by former colleagues and students, plus a valuable and engaging autobiographical letter written shortly before Cowgill's untimely death. Each article has been carefully re-typeset and edited to give a handsome and unified look to the volume.
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Price: £110.00
Pages: 578
Publisher: Beech Stave Press
Imprint: Beech Stave Press
Publication Date: 19 February 2007
ISBN: 9780974792712
Format: Hardcover
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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Prelude

Introduction............................................................................................................... vii

Bibliography of Warren Cowgill.......................................................................... xxi

Dissertations Directed by Warren Cowgill............................................................ xxv

Reminiscences Offered at the Memorial Service.............................................. xxvii

Warren Cowgill as Teacher...................................................................................... xli

Cowgill on Cowgill: Autobiographical Letter to the LSA Archives.................. xlvii

 

 

Writings

 

            GENERAL INDO-EUROPEAN

A Search for Universals in Indo-European Diachronic Morphology..................... 1

Indo-European Languages........................................................................................ 19

More Evidence for Indo-Hittite: The Tense-Aspect Systems....................................... 37

Anatolian hi-Conjugation and Indo-European Perfect: Instalment II.......................... 53

The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European.................................... 69

 

            INDO-IRANIAN

The Aorists and Perfects of Old Persian....................................................................... 77

The First Person Singular Medio-Passive of lndo-Iranian.................................... 85

On the Origin of the Indic es-Precative....................................................................... 93

 

            GREEK

Greek ou and Armenian oc'.......................................................................................... 99

Common Sense and Laryngeal Theory: A Reply to Mr. Rosen's Rejoinder............ 103

The Supposed Cypriote Optatives duwdnoi and dokoi,

             with Notes on the Greek Infinitive Formations................................................ 117

Evidence in Greek......................................................................................................... 137

Ancient Greek Dialectology in the Light of Mycenaean                                     173

Agtin : ageiro: A New r/n-Alternation........................................................................................ 187

 

            ITALO - CELTIC

Italic and Celtic Superlatives and the Dialects of Indo-European......................... 191

 

            ITALIC

The Source of Latin.stare, with Notes on Comparable Forms Elsewhere in Indo-European .... 227

The Source of Latin vis 'Thou Wilt'.......................................................................... 251

The Second Plural of the Umbrian Verb.............................................................. 267

 

            CELTIC

Old Irish teoir and cetheoir....................................................................................... 277

On the Fate of'-'w in Old Irish..................................................................................... 281

A Note  on Palatalization in Old Irish........................................................................ 291

The  Origins of  the Insular  Celtic  Conjunct  and  Absolute  Verbal  Endings ................ 299

Two Further Notes on the Origin of the Insular Celtic Absolute and Conjunct Verb Endings ..... 323

The  Etymology of lrish guidid and  the  Outcome  of *l'g"'h  in  Celtic................ 329

On the Prehistory of  Celtic  Passive  and  Deponent  Inflection................................. 353

On the Origin of the Absolute and Conjunct Verbal Inflexion of Old Irish............ 387

 

            GERMANIC

The Inflection of the Germanic o-Presents..................................................................... 395

Gothic  iddja  and  Old  English  eode........................................................... 409

The Old English Present Indicative Ending -e............................................................. 427

PIE *,:,du110 ' 2' in Germanic and Celtic, and the Nom.-Acc. Dual of Non-Neuter a-Stems ... 433

Loss of Morphophonemic Alternation in Moribund Categories,

                           as Exemplified in the Gothic Verb .......................................................... 441

 

            TOCHARIAN

Ablaut, Accent, and Umlaut in the Tocharian Subjunctive..................................... 445

 

            BALTO·SLAVIC

The Nominative Plural and Preterit  Singular of the Active Participles in Baltic ................... 451

 

            REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Review of Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse...................................................... 463

Review of Krahe, Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft.......................................... 469

Review of Puhvel, Laryngeals and the Indo-Eitropean Verb.................................... 473

Review of Mayrhofer, Sanskrit-Grammatik............................................................... 497

Comment on Wailes, "The Origins of Settled Farming in Temperate Europe" ................. 501

Review of Schmidt and Kodderitzsch (eds.), Indogermanisch und Kcltisch........... 503

Book Notice of Erhart, Indoevropske jazyky.............................................................. 507

Review of Arbeitman and Bombard (eds.), Bono Homini Donum:

                            Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J Alexander Kerns ....... 509

 

            AUS DEM NACHLASS

The z-Cases of Germanic Pronouns and Strong Adjectives              519

The Personal Endings of Thematic Verbs in Indo-European (longer version) .......... 535

 

              Index of Forms                                                                              569