Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé

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Edgar C. Polomé, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter
Walter de Gruyter, 1988 - Language Study - 791 pages

This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.

 

Contents

Speech and religious affiliation in Egypt
21
On the mythological interpretation of the oldest runic
43
Low German as a literary language in SchleswigHolstein
63
Meaning and prehistory of OIr lúan láith
89
Some suggestions
111
On the Sigurd representations in Great Britain
133
compléments
157
The IndoEuropean terms for marriage
179
présentation
439
The Sacred Marriage a study in Norse mythology
449
Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary
475
The Horn of Gallehus and the subgrouping of the Germanic
489
Sacerdos qui sacrum dat sacrum dare and sacra facere
509
On the source of Hittite halzai
525
Damned inlaws and other problems
551
Tense vs aspect in Sango and Swahili of Lubumbashi
565

The cosmic religion of the IndoEuropeans
225
On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex
245
The world and worldliness in Hartmann von Aues Der arme
259
Deconstruction and analysis of meaning in literature
279
Orthographica onomastica
297
Old Irish boi was
299
Yima et la mort
329
Ostgermanische Relikte im bairischösterreichischen
347
Some problems in the translation of Beowulf
365
The druids and human sacrifice
381
Some remarks on laryngeals and Celtic
397
Les champs sémantiques de la racine H₂eig en grec
419
The role of the Tamil film in language change and political
581
On Armenian phonology and IndoEuropean reconstruction
601
Heroic ethical philosophy and philosophical consolation
621
linguistic archaeology
649
Bilingualism and mother tongue education
669
The languages of the peoples of the USSR
689
The role of continental contacts for Scandinavian
715
Umlautdisrupting factors in Germanic
731
Die innergermanische Lautverschiebung und die Entstehung
749
Minimizing errors in the thought process
763
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