Michiel de Vaan

Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan

For the first time, the vowels of Avestan are studied comprehensively on the synchronic and diachronic level. All vowel changes which have occurred after the Proto-Iranian stage are discussed, and they are placed in a relative chronology. The phonological system of Avestan at various stages of its development is reconstructed, and the relationship between Old Avestan and Young Avestan is reviewed. Also, many philological details are discussed. This volume is of interest for Indo-Iranian philology, for Indo-European linguistics and for Iranian linguistics.

The Avestan Vowels

Alexander Lubotsky

Dit boekje bevat 50 taalkundige puzzels die in de afgelopen jaren gebruikt zijn bij de Nederlandse Taalkunde-Olympiade. Taal is niet moeilijk te doorgronden. Al met een beperkt aantal puzzelstukjes kun je gaan kijken, vergelijken en nadenken. Heb je er ooit over nagedacht wat ver- in Nederlandse werkwoorden betekent? Of hoe een Japanner het meervoud vormt? Hoe je moet tellen in het Eskimo? En hoe het spijkerschrift ooit is ontcijferd? De puzzels laten je spelenderwijs kennismaken met de essentie van taal. Vijftig taalkundige problemen, van Nederland tot Australië, uit dode en levende talen, op het gebied van schrift, klanken, grammatica en woordenschat. Compleet met een uitgebreide uitleg van alle goede antwoorden. Voor het oplossen van de vraagstukken is geen taalkundige voorkennis nodig, alleen gezond verstand en goede concentratie. Test je logisch inzicht, en ontdek of er in jou een goede taalkundige schuilt.

Breinbrekers Uit Alle Talen

Van Sanskriet Tot Spijkerschrift

This dictionary forms part of the project Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, which was initiated by Robert Beekes and Alexander Lubotsky in 1991. The aim of the project is to compile a new and comprehensive etymological dictionary of the inherited vocabulary attested in the Indo-European languages, replacing the now outdated dictionary of Pokorny (1959).

Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages

The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.

Michiel de Vaan

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