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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Proto-Indo-European"”.
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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 …
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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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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… I reconstruct 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 …
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Ancient Greek Hymns and Pastoral Gods: Comparative Studies in Poetics and Mythology
… furthers 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 …
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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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Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa [electronic resource]
… Dutch, and Spanish. These language groups are European with none having any similarities with African languages and accents, (except Afrikaans and English, which, though spoken in Africa, originated from Proto-Indo-European languages). This study involved the evaluation of commercially …
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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 …