Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology

Michele Bianconi, DPhil (2019), University of Oxford, is Post-Doctoral researcher at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Lecturer in Classics at St Hilda’s College (University of Oxford), and Fellow of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. His research focuses on language contact in the ancient world, in particular in the Graeco-Anatolian area, as well as Greek and Anatolian linguistics, as well as Indo-European reconstruction. He recently edited Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece (Brill, 2021).Marta Capano, Ph.D. (2020), University of Naples “L’Orientale”, is Post-Doctoral researcher at Ghent University. She has been Visiting Senior Associate Member at the ASCSA and Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the Greek language in Sicily and Greek-Latin language contact. She has written papers and given talks on bilingualism in the ancient world, Greek phonology, Greek in southern Italy and Sicily, and Romance linguistics. She is co-editor of the volume In amicitia tua memores et grati (Pisa University Press, 2019).Domenica Romagno, Ph.D. (2004), Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include morphosyntax/semantics interface, linguistic categorization and change, verb systems and argument coding strategies in ancient (and modern) Indo-European languages, neural correlates of word classes, language processing in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). She has recently published the article The extension of a linguistic category: middle voice in Homeric Greek between subject affectedness, reflexivity and possession ("Archivio Glottologico Italiano" 2021/1. 3-42).Francesco Rovai, Ph.D. (2008), University of Pisa, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the same university. His research interests include sociolinguistic variation and language change in Latin (with particular reference to phenomena of alignment variation and case syncretism), as well as aspects of multilingualism and language contact in the Ancient Mediterranean. He is currently working on the dialectics between orthography and palaeography in Republican Latin.

• ForewordAlexandra Y. AikhenvaldAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMichele Bianconi and Marta Capano1 Divine Witnesses in Greece and Anatolia: Iliad 3.276–280 between Contact, Variation, and ReconstructionMichele Bianconi2 Elamite and Persian Indefinites: A Comparative ViewJuan E. Briceño-Villalobos3 Phenomena of Spirantization and Language Contact in Greek Sicilian Inscriptions. The case of ΤΡΙΑΙΝΤΑMarta Capano4 Egyptian Greek: A Contact VarietySonja Dahlgren5 Substrate MattersFranco Fanciullo6 Natural Language Use and Bilingual Interference: Verbal Complementation Patterns in Post-Classical GreekVictoria Fendel7 Where Does Dionysus Ὕης Come From?Laura Massetti8 Alignment Change and Changing Alignments: Armenian Syntax and the First ‘Death’ of ParthianRobin Meyer9 Rewriting the Law: Diachronic Variation and Register in Greek and Hittite Legal LanguageKatharine Shields10 Lexical Variation in Younger Avestan: The Problem of the ‘Ahuric’ and ‘Daevic’ Vocabularies RevisitedElizabeth Tucker11 Greek ἄγυρις ‘Gathering’ between Dialectology and Indo-European ReconstructionRoberto Batisti12 Here’s to a Long Life! Echoes of Indo-European Semantics in AlbanianBrian JosephIndex