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The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence. Download Free PDF View PDF Sound Changes from Old Phrygian to New Phrygian in an Areal Context, handout, "Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium B.C.", Ascona, Switzerland, 17 - 22/06/2018
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
7.1 Introduction. Many scholars have noted similarities between Italic ( Chapter 8) and Celtic ( Chapter 9 ). Schleicher (1858) was the first to posit an Italo-Celtic node between Proto-Indo-European and Celtic and Italic. 1 But in the 1920s Carl Marstrander and Giacomo Devoto questioned the validity of this subgrouping. 2 Scholarly opinion has ...
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Italo-Celtic o-and ā-stems, in the Armenian ā-stems (Kortlandt 2003: 47, also in Indo-Iranian, as Alexander Lubotsky suggests to me), and in the Slavic possessive suffix -ьj-. The form in *-iʕ evidently coexisted with the abl.sg. form in *-(e/o)s that replaced the genitive in the same way as English of and German von in modern times.
Phrygian provides in several respects the missing link between Greek and Armenian. In particular, the paradigms of the middle voice appear to have been more extensive than what we find in the separate languages. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence.
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
Keywords: Phrygian language; Indo-European dialectology; linguistic subgrouping; isoglosses; Proto-Greek language. 1. Introduction1 Over the last three decades our knowledge of the Phrygian language has increased im-mensely, especially in regard to historical linguistics. In the light of this new information, it is
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
- 2019
An alternative theory, suggested by Eric P. Hamp, is that Phrygian was most closely related to Italo-Celtic languages. Inscriptions. The Phrygian epigraphical material is divided into two distinct subcorpora, Old Phrygian and New Phrygian. These attest different stages of the Phrygian language, are written with different alphabets and upon ...
Though specific Italo-Celtic innovations are few, the languages of this branch developed along parallel lines and preserved important traces of an original linguistic system which contained a wide variety of different formations with a considerable time depth.
