Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
Keywords:
historical and comparative linguistics, etymology, grammar tradition, langues romanesSynopsis
Many of those who will read these pages are fully aware of Professor Marek Stachowski’s scholarly achievements up to the present. How versatile and appreciated an author he has been is illustrated quite perfectly by the table of contents of the present tome. Indeed, Professor Stachowski is commonly regarded as a Turkologist whose varied academic career has been marked by a consistent approach to linguistic analysis: utilising historical-linguistic and philological methods while at the same time paying special attention to the historical background, cultural context, chronology, and the geography of linguistic contacts. Certainly, Marek Stachowski has helped broaden our knowledge of the history of Turkic languages and improve the methodology bequeathed to us by earlier generations. Additionally, however, thanks to his broad interdisciplinary approach – combining the experience and knowledge of a Turkologist with, primarily, the expertise of Uralists, Slavicists, Arabists, Iranists, Mongolists, and specialists in Yeniseic, Carpathian and Balkan studies – Marek Stachowski has been able to address issues lying beyond his main field of expertise. In fact, during his career he has highlighted just how relevant Turkology is to these research areas and, just as importantly, how much Turkology has been enriched by them. Thus, it would perhaps not be amiss to say that the central theme of his work has been its wide-ranging, multifaceted outlook.
Chapters
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Professor Marek Stachowski’s evolving academic profile over the years 1984–2016 .......... 11
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An indexed bibliography of the works of Marek Stachowski (covering the years 1984–2016) .......... 31
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From converb to classifier? On the etymology of Literary Manchu nofi* .......... 57
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Is the prosody of Slavic *pergyńi really not reconstructible? .......... 81
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Ortsnamen aus Artvin. ართვინის ტოპონიმიკა. Sprachlich-kulturelle Berührungen an der türkisch-georgischen Grenze .......... 107
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Church Slavonic vъskopysnǫti and zaskopivъ / zaskopije .......... 135
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Wedgwood’s Contested Etymologies .......... 141
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On the names of Ruthenia in early modern Poland-Lithuania .......... 161
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Contribution à l’étymologie des adjectifs romans signifiant ‘petit’ .......... 175
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Etymological and lexical problems in trilingual middle England .......... 191
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A song of marriage and setting up a house. A proto-Dolgan song recorded by K.M. Rychkov .......... 203
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A Sample from a discursive etymological dictionary, in preparation, of Polish lexical and semantic usages of definite, probable, or possible Yidish origin. On the etymology of German, Polish, Ukrainian, and Yidish nouns meaning ‘bench-bed’ .......... 219
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Polish dictionaries of the Arabic language .......... 279
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Issues of comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (2). Medial *p in Pre-Proto-Mongolic .......... 297
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Crimean Tatar kinship terms formed with pçe .......... 307
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Some etymological remarks on words squirrel and sable in Khakas .......... 315
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Ottoman Empire – Grand Duchy of Lithuania relations. Several documents from the Manuscript Department of the Vilnius University Library .......... 325
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Zu einigen strittigen Fragen der historischen Sprachwissenschaf .......... 341
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Jenissejisch-sino-tibetische Anmerkungen bei Robert P. Austerlitz .......... 351
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Romanes dilinó ‘verrückt’ im Kontrast zu türk. deli ‘irrsinnig, verrückt, ungestüm’ .......... 357
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On boasting, fear, shouting, and poetry. Engl. brag, Engl. brawl, OE brōga, and OI bragr/Bragi .......... 369
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Mineralogie und Mythologie. Aus den iranischen-griechischen Lehnwortbeziehungen .......... 383
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An Ottoman-Polish dictionary in the age of Wikimedia projects .......... 409
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On the etymology of Anglicisms in Polish dictionaries .......... 423
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Is Hung. ócsárol ‘to slander, to defame’ not a Turkic loanword? A Slavonic counterproposition .......... 433
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One more Mongolian word from the Turkish dictionary. Urgan ‘a stout rope’ .......... 457
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Non-verbal predication in Baltic. Lithuanian yrà .......... 463
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In search of giaour. Notes on the New Persian gabr ‘a Zoroastrian; infidel’ .......... 473
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Ujfalvy’s place in the development of Finno-Ugrian language studies in the second half of the 19th century in France .......... 483
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Compound tenses in Ossetic. A preliminary report .......... 507
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The Magnificent Five – the Latin fifth declension revisited .......... 511
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„How do they make bread?” – A philological commentary to a Lower Chulym text recorded by A.P. Duĺzon .......... 525
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Le petit dictionaire de Jean Palerne (1584) et sa partie turque .......... 545
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Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Wörterbuch. Die Vier Edlen Wahrheiten im uigurischen Buddhismus .......... 569
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How to say ‘to fuck’ and other things in Middle Mongγol .......... 581
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Linguistic typology and the Indo-European sigmatic future .......... 603
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Polish (?) bigos. About the thing and about the word .......... 609
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Three persistent problems .......... 619
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Im Schatten des Zwittergottes. Interkulturelle Onomastik aus Kleinasien (Phrygien/Galatien) .......... 625
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Possibly Oriental elements in Slavonic folklore. Upiór ~ wampir .......... 643
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A contribution to the history of Turkish vocabulary .......... 695
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Neue Beiträge zum Sibe-Wortschatz .......... 703
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Perfection in Biblical Hebrew .......... 709
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Terms for ‘pig’ and ‘wild boar’ in the Manchu language .......... 725
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L’Isle de Cube ou l’Île de Cuba – note sur l’édition critique du texte et la langue d’Alexandre de Humboldt .......... 745
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European ‘cassock’, Tkc. ḳazaḳ and Per. kazaḡand. Relative chronologies and possible links .......... 753
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Some Tofalar etymologies .......... 793
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Polish tatarka ‘Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn.’ and ‘Fagopyrum esculentum Moench’ in a Slavic and European context .......... 803
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Ancient Greeks on compounds. Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus .......... 819
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Delabialization after *u and the distribution of labiovelars in dialectal Proto-Indo-European .......... 845
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Interrogative in Chuvash .......... 921
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Eine Handvoll altuigurischer Handwörter .......... 935
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Zur Etymologie von ungarisch denevér ‘Fledermaus’ .......... 945
