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Indo-European Linguistics in the 19th and 20th centuries: beginnings, establishment, remodeling, refinement and extension(s) KU Leuven
History of 19th- and 20th-century Indo-European linguistics
Syntactic reconstruction in Indo-European : state of the art Ghent University
Expanding the Comparative View: Humboldt’s 'Über die Kawi-Sprache' and its language materials KU Leuven
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java can be seen as the first comparative grammar of non-Indo-European languages. While Humboldt’s practice of collecting and re-assembling linguistic information has been documented extensively in the Berlin Academy edition of his Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, this article puts his work in perspective by tracing it back to its sources and treating it as part of a wider parallel ...
The Italic Consonant Stem Ablative: Some Comparative and Theoretical Arguments for an Inherited Ending in *-d KU Leuven
The Italic consonant stem ablative in -ĕ is usually regarded as an anomalous instance of locative contamination in the ablative singular case endings. This interpretation has long been recognized as problematic, given that the Italic ablative is functionally the result of syncretism with the Proto-Indo-European instrumental, rather than the locative. In addition, it is difficult to reconcile the traditional view with the early Latin epigraphic ...
Yamī, Yama et leurs cousins indo-européens : notes sur le mythe indo-européen de l’inceste primordial Ghent University
This paper focuses on the Indo-European myth of the primordial incest, foremost using evidence from Vedic (Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda) and, more broadly, Indo-Iranian. On the basis of a philological and linguistic analysis of the dialogue hymn RV 10.10 (Yama and Yamī), I argue that Yamī, notorious for her hyper-sexuality, can be considered as the central figure of this common Indo-Iranian myth, being the (potential) sexual partner of the first ...
The first woman Yamī, her origin and her status in Indo-Iranian mythology : demigoddess or half-human? (Evidence from R̥gveda 10.10, Iranian parallels and Greek relatives) Ghent University
This paper focuses on the mythology of Yamī and her twin-brother Yama (the first humans according to Indo-Iranian mythology), their non-human origin and some aspects of Yamī’s behaviour which presumably betray a number of features of a female half-deity. The relationships between Yamī and Yama are the central topic of the dialogue hymn Rgveda 10.10, where Yamī attempts to seduce her twin to incest in order to produce offspring and thus continue ...