This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. Classical and Indo-European linguistics have been particularly exciting areas of research in recent years, and this book is intended to provide insight into some of the main areas of current debate. It stems from an international conference held in Cambridge in 2005 and includes contributions from keynote speakers Andreas Willi and Joshua Katz. The book covers a wide range of topics: phonology (the accentuation of Greek monosyllables, the development of laryngeals in Greek, and typological discussion of the glottalic theory); morphology (the prehistory of the past-tense augment, the iteratives and causatives of the Latin second conjugation, the origin of the Latin prefix co(m)- , Indo-European root nouns and s-stem neuters, Greek and Latin reflexive pronouns, the Greek comparative suffix); the etymologies of etymos, Achilles, adulare, and a Macedonian gloss; the significance of the Greek particle tar; and comparisons of Sanskrit matrimonial names and poetic terminology with their Greek counterparts. Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective demonstrates the continuing relevance of linguistics for the study of ancient languages and literature, and will be of interest to classicists, Indo-European linguists, and historical linguists generally

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I: Phonology
  • The accentuation of Greek monosyllabic words
  • Monophthong for expected υ-diphthong in Greek
  • Ejectives to plain voiced stops in PIE? Phonetics, typology and Glottalic Theory
• Part II: Verbal Morphology
  • Of aspects, augments, aorists – or how to say to have killed a dragon
  • Iteratives and causatives in Latin: a unified approach
• Part III: Particles, Preverbs and Pronouns
  • The epic adventures of an unknown particle
  • The prefix co(m)- with motion verbs in Plautus: philological study and etymological implications
  • Reconstructing reflexive markers in Indo-European: evidence from Greek and Latin
• Part IV: Nominal Morphology
  • The master of the house – Greek οἴκαδε and related issues
  • κρέας, kravíḥ and the original nom.-acc. sg. of the IE s-stem neuters
  • Gamonyms, internal derivation and the Greek suffix -ώ
  • Overlength and the system of primary comparatives in Homeric and Attic Greek
• Part V: Etymologies
  • The etymology of Latin adūlāre
  • The authority of truth and the origin of ὅσιοoς and ετυμoς (= Skt. satyá- and tūtumá-) with an excursus on pre-consonantal laryngeal loss
  • The name of Achilles
  • A note on Macedonian ἄλιζα
• Part VI: Poetics
  • The feet of Greek and Sanskrit verse
• Bibliography
• Back Cover