Clackson James. The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek

Oxford (UK) & Cambridge (USA): Blackwell Publishers, 1994. — X, 272 p. — (Publications of The Philological Society, 30). — ISBN: 0-631-19197-6.Contents: 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 Annenian: Historical phonology of Armenian. Possible shared phonological innovations made by Armenian and Greek. ‘Prothetic’ vowels. Other laryngeal developments in Annenian 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/satəm division. Word-final developments. Conclusions. 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 *-ṇ- in Greek and Armenian. Other Greek-Armenian morphological isoglosses. Greek and Armenian morphological isoglosses: conclusion. Unique Armenian-Greek lexical correspondences: Introduction. *aig'-. *h₂eig'-) ‘goat’. *al(h₁)- (*h₂el(h₁)-) ‘mill, grind’. *alōwpek'- (*h₂lōwpek'-) ‘fox’. *ām-r/n ‘day’. antro- ‘cave’. aps- (*h₂eps-) ‘limb (?)’. *ar- (*h₂er-) ‘fit’. *ar- (*h₂er-) ‘deny’. *ard- ‘dirt’. *arti (*h₂erti) ‘just now’. *au- (*h₂ew-) ‘spend the night’. *aug'ʰ- (? *angʷʰ- / *angˈʰw-) ‘neck’. *bʰrēw- ‘source, spring’. *drepan- ‘sickle’. *dwāro- ( *dweh₂ro-) ‘long’. *dwei- ‘fear’. *dhāg- (*dʰeh₂g-) ‘cut’. *dhʰal(e)- (*dhʰ(e)h₂l(h₁)-) ‘sprout, be fresh, green’. *dhʰ(e)mbʰ- ‘bury’. *dʰṛbʰu- ‘thick’. *dʰregʰ]-/*dʰregˈʰ- ‘turn’. *dʰrew- ‘cry aloud’. *edun-/*edwe/on- ‘pain’. *e/ogˈʰīn- ‘hedgehog’. enewn̥/*h₁newn̥ ‘nine’. *[i]g'el(h₂)- ‘laugh’. *g'ūr- ‘curved’. *g'm̥bʰel- ‘jaw’. *gʷebʰuryā- ‘bridge’. *gʷḷno- (*gʷḷh₂no-) ‘acorn’. *gʷnai- ‘woman’. *gˈʰiyom- ‘snow’. *k'enw- ‘empty’. *k'er- ‘cord’. *k'iwōn- ‘pillar’. *(i)kᶿīno- (*tkih₂ino-) ‘hawk, kite’. *kʰḷ- ‘loose (?)’. *mātruwyā- ‘step-mother’. *mēd- ‘measured plans’. *meg'ar- (*meg'(h₂)r-) ‘great’. *me-gˈʰ(s)ri- ‘in the hand’. *mosg'ʰo- ‘young ox, cow’. *nāgʷʰ- ‘not drinking, eating’. *nuso- ‘daughter-in-law’. *obʰel- (*h₃bʰel-) ‘increase, sweep’. *o(w)kʷi ‘not’. *ped- ‘after’. *per(i)on- ‘awl’. *pok'- ‘fleece’. *poli-yo- ‘white hair, waves’. *pork'o- ‘fishnet’. *pre(i)s-gʷu- ‘elder’. *prep- ‘appear’. *pṝkˈt- (*pṛh₃kˈt-) ‘anus, buttocks’. *ps(e)ud- ‘lie’. *ptak- (*pt(e)h₂-k-) ‘shy (?)’. *sad- (*s(e)h₂d-) ‘enough, full’. *sak'-/*sēk'- (*s(e)h₁k'-) ‘arrive’. *seps- ‘boil, cook’. *sḷh₂-sk'e/o- ‘appease’. *smi(h₂)- ‘one’. *srungʰ- ‘snout’. *twaw- (*tweh₂-wo-) ‘whole’. *wes-nu- ‘clothe’. *wi(n)d- *[i]g'h(ē)ri- ‘find favour’. Other Greek-Armenian lexical isoglosses. Summary and conclusion. The relationship between the Armenian and Greek vocabularies. Conclusion. Notes. References. Word index.