geographical concept of “haft karšvar” could be traced back to the proto-indo-iranian period. after the separation of indians and iranians, due to geographical circumstances and religio-political changes, original indo-iranian narrative of seven part of the earth, turned into its current versions. a comparison of old iranian and indian texts, specially avesta and vīspā̊ŋhō  purāṇa, shows that in...

Ancient Greek (Gk) middle verbs of fear (e.g. fobeisthai ‘to be afraid’), as Indo-European (IE) deponents in general, seem not to undergo Burzio’s Generalization [3] in its strong version, according to which verbs that lack an agentive external argument should block accusative assigning on their complement. On the contrary, Gk middle verbs of fear take accusative objects (ex. 1, structure A). I...

This paper reports on the development of the PROIEL parallel corpus of New Testament texts, which contains the Greek original of the New Testament and its earliest IndoEuropean translations, into Latin, Gothic, Old Church Slavic and Classical Armenian. A web application has been constructed specifically for the purpose of annotating the texts at multiple levels: morphology, syntax, alignment at...

The purpose of this short note is to clarify the meaning, original inflection and etymology Indo-Iranian word *mastr̥g h an- / *mastr̥ǰ an - ‘brain, skull’.

The Indo-Aryan language family currently occupies a significant region of the Indian subcontinent, its member languages being spoken in the bulk of North India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. The historical depth of the textual record and the geographical breadth of the Indo-Aryan linguistic area, the diversity of its languages (226 in all), and its many...

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