Clackson James. The linguistic relationship between Armenian and Greek

Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1994. — 276 p. — (Publications of the Philological Society 30).This book examines the evidence for a special relationship between Greek and Armenian within the Indo-European family. It contains important studies of the methods used to assess interrelationships within language families; the comparative reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European; the interpretation of Greek and Armenian texts; and the developments of the Greek and Armenian languages.The methods of relating languages in the same family
Methods of grouping Indo-European languages: a survey
Method
The significance of extra-linguistic features for the assessment of linguistic relationships
Reconstruction
Dialect and sub-group
The common innovation hypothesis
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Lexicon
Weighting of agreements
The relationship between Greek and Armenian
The Armenian language
Phonological agreements between Greek and Armenian
Orthography and phonology of Classical Armenian
Historical phonology of Armenian
Possible shared phonological innovations made by Armenian and Greek
'Prothetic' vowels
Other laryngeal developments in Armenian and Greek
The Armenian treatment of the Proto-Indo-European 'long sonants'
The Greek and Armenian treatment of *-iH-/ *-uH-
Bonfante's Greek-Armenian isoglosses
The development of the syllabic liquids
Proto-Indo-European *-y-
The development of *-ln- to *-ll-
The development of *s > h
The centum/satem division
Word-final developments
Conclusions
Chapter 3. Possible morphological innovations shared by Greek and Armenian
The morphology and syntax of Classical Armenian
Possible morphological innovations made by Greek and Armenian: introduction
Greek and Armenian locatives: introduction
-oǰ in Armenian
Nouns with nominative singular in -i
mioǰ
Greek forms in -οθι
Greek and Armenian locatives: conclusion
Instrumental singular and plural: introduction
-φι in Greek
The Armenian instrumental
The instrumental case: conclusion
The suffix *-olā-
Ionic iteratives and the Armenian aorists in -c'-: introduction
Ionic iteratives
The Armenian aorist morph -c'-
Ionic iteratives and Armenian aorists: conclusion
Verbs with a nasal affix in Greek and Armenian: introduction
The affix *-n(e)u- in Greek and Armenian
The affix *-n̥- in Greek and Armenian
Other Greek-Armenian morphological isoglosses
Greek and Armenian morphological isoglosses: conclusion
Unique Armenian-Greek lexical correspondences
The relationship between the Armenian and Greek vocabularies

Notes

Word index