Laws and Rules in Indo-European

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Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European which constrain the reconstructions and etymologies on which knowledge of the history and prehistory of the language family is based. The book makes an important contribution to the history of ancient languages. Title Pages Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Fern do frestol na .u. consaine: perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish Cladistic principles and linguistic reality: the case of West Germanic Older Runic evidence for North‐West Germanic a‐umlaut of u (and ‘the converse of Polivanov's Law’) A law unto themselves? An acoustic phonetic study of ‘tonal’ consonants in British Panjabi Kuryłowicz's first ‘law of analogy’ and the development of passive periphrases in Latin Phonetic laws, language diffusion, and drift: the loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC A rule of deaspiration in ancient Greek Regular sound change and word‐initial */i̯/‐ in Armenian Schrijver's rules for British and Proto‐Celtic *‐ ou̯‐ and *‐uu̯‐ before a vowel Origins of the Greek law of limitation Re‐examining Lindeman's Law Exon's Law and the Latin syncopes Brugmann's Law: the problem of Indo‐Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives Kiparsky's Rule, thematic nasal presents, and athematic verba vocalia in Greek praetor urbanus – urbanus praetor: some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin The rules of politeness and Latin request formulae References General index Index of words