Gender and numeral classifiers in Modern Nepali and their Proto-Indo-European analogues

Proto-Indo-European Lexicon: The Generative Etymological Dictionary of Indo-European Languages

Proto-Indo-European Lexicon (PIE Lexicon) is the generative etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages. The reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is obtained by applying the comparative method, the output of which equals the Indo-European (IE) data. Due to this the Indo-European sound laws leading from PIE to IE, revised in Pyysalo 2013, can be coded using Finite-State Transducers...

Evidentiality in Proto-Indo-European? Building a Case

Many languages show systematic marking for evidentiality, indicating the source of a speaker’s information, the modality by which that information was gained, and the speaker’s stance towards the veracity of the information. Among the meanings expressed through such markings are quotativity, distance, reportedness, surprise, eyevs. ear-witness, and in general any sort of “mediation” by the spea...

Similarity Avoidance in the Proto-Indo-European Root

This paper adapts the similarity avoidance analysis developed by Frisch, Pierrehumbert and Broe (2004) for Arabic to account for co-occurrence restrictions in the set of reconstructed verbal roots of Proto-IndoEuropean (PIE). Completion of the two components of the similarity avoidance methodology – the identification of consonantal co-occurrence restrictions through quantification of overand u...

in translation: translators on their work and what it means

کتاب در باب ترجمه، اثر استر آلن و سوزان برنوفسکی منتشر شده در ماه می 2013 توسط نشریه کلمبیا است. نویسندگان در این کتاب به بررسی 18 مترجم با در نظر گرفتن نقش آثاری که این مترجمان ترجمه کرده اند میپردازند. کتاب به دو بخش تقسیم میشود: " مترجم در جهان" و " کار مترجم" این دو بخش مقالات همیشگی ترجمه و موقعیت خاص ادبیات بیگانه در جهان وسیع امروزی را مورد خطاب قرار میدهد. در این کتاب مقالات متعددی از ن...

Reconstructing the medio - passive participle of Proto - Indo - European Jesse