Language in Time and Space W DE G Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 144 Editors Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Language in Time and Space A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday Edited by Brigitte L. M. Bauer Georges-Jean Pinault Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York 2003 Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. ISBN 3-11-017648-3 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at <http://dnb.ddb.de>. © Copyright 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechan- ical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover Design: Christopher Schneider, Berlin Printed in Germany. Ι 1te \ Table of Contents Werner Winter: Publications 1949-2003 ix Introduction: Werner Winter, ad multos annos xxiii Patterns of stress and rhythm in Tocharian B prosody Douglas Q. Adams 1 Old Irish masu 'if is' and similar forms Anders Ahlqvist 13 On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts Henning Andersen 19 A concept of truth for linguistic semantics Jerzy Banczerowski 35 Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian B -e- presents without initial palatalization Gerd Carling 63 Some thoughts on 'Universals' N. E. Collinge 77 Latin static morphology and paradigm families Wolfgang U. Dressler 87 Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan George van Driem 101 Some taboo-words in Iranian languages of Central Asia Dioj (Joy) I. Edelman 121 Apposition and word-order typology in Indo-European Olav Hackstein 131 vi Table of Contents Reading Moliere's The Learned Ladies — remarks on (im)politeness Fran^oise Hammer 153 Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism? Lessons from the past for the present and the future Hans Henrich Hock 167 On the origin of Tocharian terms for GRAIN Vyacheslav V. Ivanov 189 The Hittite reflexive construction in a typological perspective Folke Josephson 211 Praise and Honor (Gothic hazjan, Old English hergan, and Russian cest') Yuri Kleiner 233 The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite Frederik Kortlandt 241 Realism in Indo-European Linguistics Win/red P. Lehmann 245 Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian Alexander Lubotsky and Sergei Starostin 257 Categorizing the Japanese lexicon. A proposal with a background Alfred F. Majewicz 271 Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal Boyd Michailovsky 287 'But' without switch-reference Pamela Munro 293 Fresh shoots from a vigourous stem: IE *uihjro- Birgit Anette Olsen 313 On the tracks of the Tocharian Guru Georges-Jean Pinault 331 Table of Contents vii Eventide in Hatti-land Jaan Puhvel 347 An integrated view on ablaut and accent in Indo-European Jens Elmegard Rasmussen 351 An early rule of syncope in Tocharian Don Ringe 359 The Latin imperfect in -bä-, the Proto-Indo-European root *bhueh - and full grade I forms from set-roots with full grade II 2 Helmut Rix 363 Conceptualization of agency in contemporary Polish Elzbieta Tabakowska 385 Ouvrier, Arbeiter, workman, rabocij, obrero, operaio Wolfgang Viereck and Matthias Goldammer 405 Classical Armenian HAGAG 'breath' and OGEM 'to speak' Jos J. S. Weitenberg 419 Index 429 Index of examples 439 Tabula Gratulatoria 441