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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Comparative Philology"”.
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
This thesis argues that the disciplines of comparative philology and linguistics exerted significant force on the priorities and techniques of musicologists and composers in fin-de-siècle France, and examines how ideologies of Indo-Europeanism (or aryanism), concomitant with comparative philology, …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative philology and publishers’ recognition of the market potential of urban working-class readers. Using writers from both working- and middle-class backgrounds from the region of Lancashire, this study argues that dialect novelists engage in …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… of PIE, has presented a perennial challenge to Comparative Philologists. I demonstrate that Minimalist reconstruction provides a viable methodology through which we may address this challenge, integrating the specific task of reconstruction into the broader field of historical syntax. The …
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The Subjunctive in Celtic: Studies in Historical Phonology and Morphology
… languages has long been a contested matter in comparative Celtic and Indo-European linguistics, particularly regarding the question of whether the ā-subjunctive of Old Irish constitutes a shared innovation with the Italic branch of the language family. In this thesis, the data is …