"View, Knowledge, Word: The Container Image-Schema Applied to a Case of Proto-Indo-European Polysemy. present discussion aims at reconsidering the theoretical process knowledge in some ancient Indo-European languages light prerequisites offered by cognitive linguistics and prototype theory. Thanks dynamic pattern – which is primitive mental structure historical outcomes polysemic root will be d...

Abstract This paper analyzes and supports the claim that Vedic Sanskrit preserves traces of contrast between Indo-European labiovelars plain velars—a striking archaism in Indo-Iranian family, which otherwise collapsed two velar series. These labiovelar vestiges emerge because pervasive labialization syllabic consonantal rhotics at all attested stages family. Two rhotic environments are examined...

Cet article se concentre sur l'origine de plusieurs mots étymologiquement obscurs des vocabulaires grec et indo-iranien (surtout sanskrit) (principalement noms faisant référence à certaines divinités ou créatures panthéons mythologiques inférieurs), tels que gr. κένταυρος / skr. gandharvá- Κέρβερος śábala- (l’un deux chiens l’enfer dans la mythologie indienne). Je suppose ces formes ne peuvent ...