Indo-European
Reconstructing an Indo European Family Tree from Non native English Texts
... We selected the ICLE corpus v.2 (Granger et al., 2009) as the target language data. It consists of English essays written by a wide variety of non- native speakers of English. Among them, the 11 shown in Table 1 are of ...
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The Arabic Origins of English and Indo-European "Legal Terms": A Radical Linguistic Theory Approach
... of European and Arabian languages (Jassem 2015c: 41, ...all Indo-European languages descended directly from Arabic for reasons outlined earlier (Jassem 2015a-b, 2015d: 131-132; 2014a-b, ...so-called ...
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Grammaticalization of a reciprocal pronoun in a diachronic typological perspective: Evidence from Vedic and Indo-European
... historical Indo-European syntax opens new perspectives in the reconstruction of the syntactic features of Proto-Indo-European and in the study of the main grammaticalization paths attested in ...
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Utility of Finnish Vocabulary of Indo-European Origin for Learning Finnish
... However, Finnish borrowed many Indo-European vocabulary items from Swedish since the Swedish conquest in the 12th century. For instance, the Finnish noun suklaa (chocolate) was borrowed from Swedish choklad ...
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Anatolian evidence suggests that the Indo-European laryngeals *h2 and *h3 were uvular stops
... 32 Note that the “b-gap” is a generally recognized constraint for Proto-Indo-European, and that such a constraint can only be explained by a pre-PIE development of *b into a dif- ferent sound (thus already ...
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A 'lengthy' problem: Towards an explanation of the Proto-Indo-European long vowels
... *nók w ts ‘night’ has been extensively discussed by Kloekhorst (2014a: 156f.; 161). He ob- serves that the paradigm *nók w ts, gen. *nék w ts as postulated by Schindler 1967, who inter- preted Hitt. nekuz in nekuz mēḫur ...
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Passive and middle in Indo-European: Reconstructing the early Vedic passive paradigm
... In what follows, I will focus on the alleged passive function of the middle diathe- sis. In Section 2, I will offer a general overview of formations of the three main tense systems, those of present, aorist and perfect, ...
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Accent in proto-Indo-European athematic nouns : antifaithfulness in inflectional paradigms
... reconstruction of accent in athematic nouns, has undergone a revolution in the field of Indo- European linguistics. Through the first half of the 20 th century, the neogrammarian could have sat in on an IE ...
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Gender and numeral classifiers in Modern Nepali and their Proto-Indo-European analogues
... 3. Evolution of gender in Indo-European. According to current consensus (as summarised by Luraghi 2011), Proto-Indo-European (PIE) had a two-gender system based on the distinction between ...
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Case variation and case alternation in Indo-European and beyond: A diachronic typological perspective
... ancient Indo-European languages, where the nominative and accusa- tive endings (going back to Proto-Indo-European *-s and *-m) are equally marked; the former may actually be a vestige of the ...
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Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo European
... Languages do not replace their vocabularies at an even rate: words endure longer if they are used more frequently. This effect, which has parallels in evolutionary biology, has been demonstrated for the core vocabulary, ...
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Grammaticalization of reciprocal pronouns in Indo-Aryan: Evidence from Sanskrit and Indo-European for a diachronic typology of reciprocal constructions
... of Indo-Aryan, we possess rich material for a diachronic analysis of the valency-changing ...by Indo-European comparative linguistics creates a good basis for hypotheses about the origin and possible ...
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Chapter 2 Indo-European.pdf
... It is the first systematic sound change discovered in the Germanic languages which makes them different from other Indo-European languages. It was discovered by the German philologist Jacob Grimm. The sound ...
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Y-chromosomal Status of Six Indo-European-Speaking Arab Subpopulations in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
... As there are very few studies on Y-chromosome haplogroups in Iranian populations and also no available data about haplogroup situation of Arab people in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, in this study we analyzed the ...
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The Effects of Language Relatedness on Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Case Study With Indo European and Semitic Languages
... We explore the effects of language related- ness within a multilingual information re- trieval (IR) framework which can be de- ployed to virtually any language, focusing specifically on Indo-European versus ...
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Indo-european union strategic cooperation in afghanistan
... With India committing to another US$1 billion to Afghanistan and the EU recognizing the need for a more sustained presence to stabilize the country, there is an unprecedented scope for Indo-European ...
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Nikolai Marr’s Critique of Indo-European Philology and the Subaltern Critique of Brahman Nationalism in Colonial India
... the Indo-European paradigm was not writing history as such but ‘rejecting brahmanical history’ from a collective subaltern or, using Phule’s term, ‘shudratishudra perspective’ (Deshpande 2002, ...
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The Thematic Nominal Stems in Anatolian and Indo-European
... Nom. sg. comm.: in Hittite the ending is -aš for the thematic nouns, e.g. alpaš from alpa- ‘cloud’, ḫimmaš from ḫimma- ‘imitation, replica’, lālaš from lāla- ‘tongue’ and so on (EDHIL 169, 343, 515). 19 It can be ...
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Talking Neolithic: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on How Indo-European Was Implemented in Southern Scandinavia
... the agricultural words may have been adopted in this process, we think the archaeological record of early third-millennium B.C.E. Scandinavia provides a par- ticularly apt setting for the given linguistic scenario. The ...
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Valency-changing categories in Indo-Aryan and Indo-European: A diachronic typological portrait of Vedic Sanskrit
... Bei den Sätzen mit Verben muß man <…> unterscheiden, ob das Verb allein steht oder noch eine Ergänzung, ein Objekt, fordert, ob es nach der gewöhnlichen Aus- drucksweise intransitiv oder transitiv ist. <…> ...
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