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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Indo-European"”.
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Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory
The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek, Gothic, and Sanskrit share the property that root-initial consonant clusters exhibit different reduplicant shapes, …
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Evidence from innovation: Reconstructing disharmonic headedness for Proto-Indo-European
… a disharmonically headed reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) clausal syntax; specifically, I argue that PIE was left-headed in the CP domain and right-headed in the TP domain, and provide additional evidence that PIE was right-headed within VP as well. The novelty of my approach compared …
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Skyscapes, landscapes, and the drama of Proto-Indo-European myth.
… Rise of Bronze Age Society’ (2005) that utilised Indo-European myth to shed light on the iconography of Bronze Age Scandinavian art, this thesis postulates a similar relationship between Proto-Indo-European mythology and the ceremonial sites of the British Neolithic, arguing both, at root, share a …
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
… the language of color in the ancient Indo-European world. The first of three parts is a linguistic endeavor that traces the history of color terms in the Indo-European language family and reconstructs the color roots that existed at various stages throughout the pre-histories of the …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… the syntax of relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Syntactic reconstruction, particularly in the case of PIE, has presented a perennial challenge to Comparative Philologists. I demonstrate that Minimalist reconstruction provides a viable methodology through which we may address …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… theory of correlative constructions in ancient Indo-European languages, challenging the traditional view that correlatives are a subtype of relative clauses. Focusing on Vedic Sanskrit, Old and Young Avestan, Old Persian, Hittite, and Homeric Greek, the study presents both synchronic and …
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Viewing Helen of Sparta and Draupadi of Pancala: A Comparative Approach
… epics showing the layers of two cultures of pre-Indo-European and Indo-European in characterizing Helen and similarly, pre-Vedic and Vedic in the portrayals of Draupadī. This dissertation is broken up into three parts and two chapters each. While the first part of the dissertation focuses on …
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Ancient Greek Hymns and Pastoral Gods: Comparative Studies in Poetics and Mythology
… the investigation through the possible Proto-Indo-European etymological relation between the Greek and Vedic terms meaning hymn: humnos and sumna-, respectively. In the second part of the thesis, the comparative approach is taken further to investigate the relations and equivalences between …
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
… France, and examines how ideologies of Indo-Europeanism (or aryanism), concomitant with comparative philology, generated efforts to ‘sound out’ Indo-Europeanism in music. Using a relational approach, dense interdisciplinary networks of philologists/linguists, musicologists, and composers …
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Iranian Leadership Ideals: A Culturally-based Leadership Approach
… for suggestions for the existence of a distinct Indo-European leadership (IEL) style (Nahavandi, 2012a; Nahavandi & Krishnan, 2017) with philosophical roots in Iran and India and provides impetus for looking beyond Western models of leadership.</p> <p>The Iranian culture, a member of the …
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Aspects of Verbal Noun Constructions in Medieval Irish and Welsh With Reference to Similar Constructions in Basque
… language, Middle Welsh, and an unrelated, non-Indo-European language, Basque. The discussion of the Medieval Irish material is followed by the evaluation of an illustrative corpus of Middle Welsh data and available descriptions of Welsh verbal nouns. Parallel constructions in these Insular …
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The Subjunctive in Celtic: Studies in Historical Phonology and Morphology
… 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 comprehensively reassessed, …
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Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory
Vedic Sanskrit, the early Indo-European language spoken by the Aryan invaders of India in the 2nd millenium B.C.E., is a language showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of …
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The Middle Voice in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament
… system through a diachronic study of related Indo-European languages. Second, it applies the eleven middle voice semantic types described by Rutger J. Allan in his study of Classical Greek to the literature of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament. Specifically, chapter 1 of the dissertation …
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Linguistically motivated models for lightly-supervised dependency parsing
… unsupervised parsers when tested on a set of 6 Indo-European languages. Next, we show that a linguistically aware model design greatly facilitates crosslingual parser transfer by leveraging syntactic connections between languages. Our transfer approach outperforms the state-of-the-art …
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The Nominative-Accusative Neuter Plural in Anatolian
… neuter plural in the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. The central five chapters contain attestations of neuter plurals, accompanied by philological discussion. Forms have been collected from all texts identified by their ductus as Old or Middle Hittite, from a sampling of Late Hittite …
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… of comparative-historical linguistics affected European ethnohistoric thought, and how this process altered ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the …
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Morality in War: A Comparison Between Bhīma from the Mahābhārata and Achilles from the Iliad
… Bhīma and Achilles, in their respective Indo-European epics. Specifically, this thesis shows how outside influences (mortal or immortal) placed upon each warrior ultimately determine the warriors' actions, especially those towards their enemies. As the treatment of these warriors in their …
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The Role of Motivation in Second Language Pronunciation
… first languages (L1s) do not belong to the same Indo-European language family as English. Fifteen non-native speakers (NNSs) of English filled out a questionnaire and produced four speech samples, including a picture description task, paragraph reading task, sentence reading and word reading …
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The Mari Lwyd and the horse queen : palimpsests of Ancient ideas.
… and fertility can be seen in many cultures with Indo-European roots. The earliest and most complete reference to this deity can be seen in Vedic texts from 1500 BCE. Documentary evidence in rock art, and sixth century BCE Tartessian inscriptions demonstrate that the ancient Celtic world saw this …
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