Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies

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by  J. H. W. Penney

Indo-European Perspectives
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Indo-European
Perspectives
Studies in Honour of
Anna Morpurgo Davies
 
J. H. W. PENNEY
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Contents
Editor’sPreface ix
TwoNotesfromOUP xi
NotesonContributors xiii
I: INDO-EUROPEAN
1. Ilperfettoindoeuropeotraendomorfismoedesomorfismo 3
  
2. Particles andPersonalPronouns:Inclusive*me and Exclusive
*ue 18
„
 . 
3. EtymologyandHistory:ForaStudyof‘MedicalLanguage’in
Indo-European 30
. . 
4. TheStativeValueofthePIEVerbalSu¶x*-eh- 48
1
ˆ. . 
5. The Third Donkey: Origin Legends and Some Hidden
Indo-EuropeanThemes 65
 
II: GREEK
6. Spoken Language and Written Text: The Case of (cid:1)λλοειδ(cid:7)α
(Hom.Od.13.194) 83
. . 
7. SocialDialectinAttica 95
 
8. TheAttitudeoftheAthenianStatetowardstheAttic Dialectin
theClassicalEra 109
 
9. RuleswithoutReasons?WordsforChildreninPapyrusLetters 119
 
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10. Langagedefemmesetd’hommesengrecancien:l’exemplede
Lysistrata 131
 
11. DieTmesisbeiHomerundaufdenmykenischenLinearB-Tafeln:
einchronologischesParadox? 146
 
12. (cid:9)Ελλ(cid:11)σποντος 179
ˆ 
13. Aspect andVerbsofMovementin the History ofGreek: Why
PericlesCould‘WalkintoTown’butKaramanlisCouldNot 182
 
14. The‘SwimmingDuck’inGreekandHittite 195
 . 
15. Namesin-eand-e-uinMycenaeanGreek 217
 
16. Sella,subsellium,meretrix:sonantes-voyelleset‘e·et Saussure’
engrecancien 236
  
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17. Zugriechischτυρ(cid:19)ς‘Ka•se’ 254
 -•
18. TwoMycenaeanProblems 258
 
19. OnSomeGreeknt-Formations 266
 
20. AccentuationinOldAttic,LaterAttic,andAttic 277
 
21. Indo-European*(s)mer-inGreekandCeltic 292
 
22. Χα(cid:21)ρε κα(cid:23) π(cid:24)ει ε(cid:25)(AVI 2) 300
 
23. FlowingRiches:Greek(cid:26)φενοςandIndo-EuropeanStreams 323
 
Contents vii
III: ANATOLIAN
24. SomeProblemsinAnatolianPhonologyandEtymology 341
ˆ . 
25. TheStag-GodoftheCountrysideandRelatedProblems 355
. . 
26. ALuwianDedication 370
.  
27. Das Wort fu•r ‘Jahr’ und hieroglyphen-luwisch yari- ‘sich
ausdehnen’ 380
 
28. Dalnomecomunealnomedivino,proprioelocale:ilcasodi
tasku-inanatolico 384
 
IV: WESTERN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
29. The Word-Order Pattern magna cum laude in Latin and
Sabellian 391
 
30. Plus«cachange...:Lachmann’sLawinLatin 405
 . 
31. OldEnglishma†elian,m¤†lan,m¤»lan 417
 
32. Inomidellefiguredeimitigrecinellelinguedell’Italiaarcaica.
TheFirstTracesofAchillesandHerculesinLatin 436
 
33. OldWelsh Dinacat, Cunedag,Tutagual:FossilizedPhonology
inBrittonicPersonalNames 447
 
34. ConsumerIssues:Beowulf 3115aandGermanic‘Bison’ 461
 . 
35. DiehispanischeHeerschaudesSiliusItalicus 474
• 
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V: INDO-IRANIAN AND TOCHARIAN
36. OnVedicSuppletion:da»‹sandvidh 487
‹  ‹ ‹
37. TocharianBpa•st anditsVocalism 514
. . . 
38. Promising Perspective or Dead End? The Issue of Metrical
PassagesintheOldPersianInscriptions 523
• 
39. TheParthianAbstractSu¶x-yft 539
 -
40. Denominative Verbsin Avestan: Derivatives from Thematic
Stems 548
 
VI: HISTORY OF INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS
41. The Celtic Studies of Lorenzo Herva‹s in the Context of the
LinguisticsofhisTime 565
  
42. JohannesSchmidt’sAcademicCareerandhisLetterstoAugust
Schleicher 577
 
MajorPublicationsonPhilologyandLinguistics
byAnnaMorpurgoDavies 587
SelectIndexofWordsDiscussed 594
Editor’s Preface
This collection ofpapers on Indo-Europeanthemes is presented toAnna
MorpurgoDaviestomarkherretirementfromtheChair(nowtheDiebold
Chair) of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford, a position
thatshehasheldwithsignaldistinctionsince1971.
Atthattimecomparativephilologywaso·eredbyafewOxfordunder-
graduates as a special subject in Classical Honour Moderations, and the
DiplomainComparativePhilologyattracted justthe occasionalgraduate
student.Overthelastthirty-threeyears,underAnna’sdirection,thesubject
hascometoexertawideappeal,withever-increasingnumberstakingphilo-
logyoptionsatalllevelsintheClassicscoursesandasubstantialgroupof
graduatestudentsreadingforthespecialisttaughtM.Phil.oradoctoratein
someaspect ofIndo-Europeanstudies.Characteristically,Annahas never
beencontentmerelywiththeformalteachingofhergraduatestudents;in
1972, for instance, she instituted ‘PhilologicalLunches’, which have since
takenplaceweeklyduringtermbeforetheComparativePhilologyGraduate
Seminars,atwhichsta·,students,andvisitorsmeetinrelaxedsurroundings
todiscuss not onlyphilologicalnews butalsomattersofgreatermoment
suchastherelativemeritsofdi·erentnationalstylesofcake.
Anna has also vigorously promoted the study of General Linguistics
within the University, being largely instrumental in the establishment of
the Chair in that subject (and in its preservation during di¶cult times),
and she has also fought many battles at the national level to safeguard
linguistic specialisms within the university system. Her achievements on
behalf ofLinguistics as a whole were recognized by the award in 2000 of
anHonoraryDBE.Norhas this beenthe limitofAnna’s activities within
Oxford: she has been, amongother things, an active and valuedmember
ofseveralBoards,aCuratoroftheBodleianLibrary,andaDelegateofthe
OxfordUniversityPress.
Anna’s retirement thus provides a suitable occasion for this volume,
yet a glance at the contents will at once show that this is not simply
an internal Oxford tribute. Ever since the appearance of her Mycenaeae
GraecitatisLexiconin1963,Annahasenjoyedaninternationalreputationas
arigorousandperceptivescholar.Hermanypublications—principallyon
Mycenaean Greek, otherdialects ofAncientGreek, HieroglyphicLuwian,