Probert Philomen, Willi Andreas (eds.). Laws and Rules in Indo-European

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — XXIII, 393 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-960992-5.Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes on contributors. Abbreviations. List of Figures. List of Tables. Philomen Probert. Andreas Willi, Introduction. Part I: Linguistic ‘laws’ in pre-modern thought: Paul Russell, Fern do frestol na .u. consaine: perceptions of sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing among the medieval Irish. Part II: Rules of language change and linguistic methodology: Don Ringe, Cladistic principles and linguistic reality: the case of West Germanic. Patrick Stiles, Older Runic evidence for North-West Germanic a-umlaut of u (and ‘the converse of Polivanov’s Law’). Jane Stuart-Smith. Mario Cortina-Borja, A law unto themselves? An acoustic phonetic study of ‘tonal’ consonants in British Panjabi. Wolfgang de Melo, Kurylowicz’s first ‘law of analogy’ and the development of passive periphrases in Latin. Anna Morpurgo Davies, Phonetic laws, language diffusion, and drift: the loss of sibilants in the Greek dialects of the first millennium BC. Part III: Segmental sound laws: new proposals and reassessments: Paul Elbourne, A rule of deaspiration in ancient Greek. Daniel Kölligan, Regular sound change and word-initial */i̯/- in Armenian. Nicholas Zair, Schrijver’s rules for British and Proto-Celtic ’*-ou̯- and *-uu- before a vowel. Part IV: Origins and evolutions: Philomen Probert, Origins of the Greek law of limitation. Peter Barber, Re-examining Lindeman’s Law. Ranjan Sen, Exon’s Law and the Latin syncopes. Part V: Systemic consequences: Elizabeth Tucker, Brugmann’s Law: the problem of Indo-Iranian thematic nouns and adjectives. Andreas Willi, Kiparsky’s Rule, thematic nasal presents, and athematic verba vocalia in Greek. Part VI: Synchronic laws and rules in syntax and sociolinguistics: David Langslow, praetor urbanus – urbanus praetor: some aspects of attributive adjective placement in Latin. Eleanor Dickey, The rules of politeness and Latin request formulae. References. General index. Index of words.