The Position of Anatolian 6.1 History of the Question 6.1.1 Discovery and Recognition Hrozný (1917) showed that the chief administrative language of the Hittite Empire, attested in cuneiform documents from Hattusha in central Turkey dating from the 16th-13th centuries BCE, was Indo-European. Through the work of a number of scholars it was known by the 1930s that Hittite was not alone in ancient...

The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics Semitic languages, as studies Lutz Edzard who analyzed between various languages once they were already distinguished from one another separate branches deriving Proto-Semitic. However, Edzard’s contribution to issue regards only same family, a relatively small language family integrated l...

Abstract In Ogihara’s edition of the Tocharian B so-called “Avadāna-Manuscript”, a fragment from Dhanika-Avadāna contains word santse. On basis parallel texts, it is shown that santse means ‘daughter-in-law’. This newly identified cognate with a.o. Greek νυός ‘daughter-in-law’ and derives Proto-Indo- European *snusó-.

Artykuł przedstawia wybrane osiągnięcia współczesnego językoznawstwa historyczno-porównawczego indoeuropejskiego od początku XX wieku do czasów obecnych, koncentrując się przede wszystkim na zagadnieniu teorii laryngalnych, rekonstrukcji prajęzykowych paradygmatów akcentuacyjno-apofonicznych, derywacji wewnętrznej i systemie Calanda. Autor zauważa, że brakuje w polskich pracach naukowych pozycj...

This paper deals with the origin of optative function verbal adjective in -l Serbian language, a functionally restricted and stylistically marked modal form. Within synchronic analyses, it is usually explained as secondary form: result reducing complex forms, whose constituent represents today. By applying diachronic comparative linguistic analysis shown that formant *-l- Proto-Indo-European or...

This preliminary research was aimed at finding the roots in various Eurasian proto-languages directly related to pulses and giving the words denoting the same in modern European languages. Six Proto-Indo-European roots were indentified, namely arnk(')- ('a leguminous plant'), *bhabh- ('field bean'), *[Formula: see text] ('a kernel of leguminous plant', 'pea'), ghArs- ('a leguminous plant'), *ke...