Greek and Indo-European etymology in action : proto-Indo-European *aǵ- / Raimo Anttila.
This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- 'drive' is placed again...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 200. |
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| Summary: | This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- 'drive' is placed against its Germanic replacement drive as a typological parallel. Many long-standing problems can now be solved, and new hypotheses emerge. Starting with the still important sports and games aspect of social life, new morphology is resurrected (agṓn 'games' as an original plural; 2), and a s. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 314 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-286) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284310 9027284318 1283128160 9781283128162 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |