Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics Volume 7 May 2002 Edited by Ina J. Hartmann Andreas Willi Contents Editorial note v Contributors’ addresses vii About the contributors ix Preface Anna Morpurgo Davies xi RV rgmín-≥ , rgmíya-≥ , and rñjate≥ Elizabeth Tucker 1 Periphrastic causatives with poiv in Ancient Greek prose Diana Gibson 27 Simplification of case morphology in Koine Greek Evidence from the private letters from Mons Claudianus Ela Harrison 41 ‘What name? What parentage?’ The classification of Greek names and the Elean corpus Ina J. Hartmann 55 Phonological reconstruction and the rôle of semantics in etymology The case of Greek ¥kv and *ikv ‘to (have) come’ Andreas Willi 83 The ‘iterative-intensives’ in -skon Jason Zerdin 103 Notes on some Sabellic demonstratives J. H. W. Penney 131 The vocative’s calling? The syntax of address in Latin Richard Ashdowne 143 The type faxo in Plautus and Terence Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo 163 On the prosody of Latin enclitics Philomen Probert 181 The linguistic basis of textual segmentation in Serbian Church Slavonic sources of the 14th-15th centuries C. M. MacRobert 207 From the etymology workshop Work in progress on the Oxford English Dictionary Philip Durkin, Jane McCauley, Tania Styles, Samantha Schad, Neil Fulton, Anthony Esposito, Joanna Tulloch 225 Representations of Indo-European lexical dissimilarities Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi and Mario Cortina Borja 243 Editorial note Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics presents research being undertaken by past and present staff and graduate students from the University of Oxford. The current volume concentrates on topics in Comparative Philology and Historical Linguistics. The photograph on page x was taken by Francesca Schironi. Comments on the papers included here are welcome: the authors’ and editors’ addresses are listed on the following pages. To get in touch with the editors or for further information you can also write to: The Centre for Linguistics and Philology Clarendon Press Institute Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG United Kingdom The current volume of Oxford University Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics will soon be available on the web at the following URL: http://www.clp.ox.ac.uk/publications/owp Ina J. Hartmann Andreas Willi Contributors’ addresses Richard Ashdowne Ina J. Hartmann New College St. Hugh’s College Oxford OX1 3BN Oxford OX2 6LE [email protected] [email protected] Mario Cortina Borja Catherine Mary MacRobert Institute of Child Health Lady Margaret Hall Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology Oxford OX2 6QA & Biostatistics [email protected] University College London 30 Guilford Street Anna Morpurgo Davies London WC1N 1EH Somerville College [email protected] Oxford OX2 6HD [email protected] Wolfgang de Melo Corpus Christi College Oxford English Dictionary Oxford OX1 4JF Oxford University Press [email protected] Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP Diana Gibson [email protected] Christ Church College Oxford OX1 1DP John H. W. Penney [email protected] Wolfson College Oxford OX2 6UD Ela Harrison [email protected] Department of Classics University of California, Berkeley Philomen Probert 7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520 Wolfson College Berkeley, CA 94720-2520 Oxford OX2 6UD U.S.A. [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Tucker Jason Zerdin The Oriental Institute Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Pusey Lane Rooms 312 & 314 Oxford OX1 2LE Clarendon Building [email protected] Bodleian Library Oxford OX1 3BG Andreas Willi [email protected] Seminar für Klassische Philologie Universität Basel Nadelberg 6 CH- 4051 Basel Andreas [email protected] About the contributors Mary MacRobert, Anna Morpurgo Davies, John Penney, Philomen Probert, and Elizabeth Tucker all teach at Oxford. Jason Zerdin took his doctorate at Oxford in 2000 and is now working for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names; Andreas Willi completed his Oxford D.Phil. in 2001 and is currently at Basel as Post- doctoral Research Assistant; Ela Harrison followed her Oxford BA in Classics with an M.St. in linguistics before moving to Stanford. From 2002-3 she will be a graduate student in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Ashdowne is currently completing his M.Phil. at Oxford, while Wolfgang de Melo, Diana Gibson, and Ina Hartmann are working at their Oxford doctorates. T. S. Dhesi was a student of Mario Cortina Borja in the Department of Statistics at Oxford; he is now at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, while Mario is at the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics of University College, London. Philip Durkin is Principal Etymologist for the Oxford English Dictionary; the other contributors to the OED article, Anthony Esposito, Neil Fulton, Jane McCauley, Samantha Schad, Tania Styles, and Joanna Tulloch, all belong to the etymology team which works for Oxford University Press literally across the road from the Oxford Centre for Linguistics and Philology. Preface Anna Morpurgo Davies On a Tuesday in January 2002 students and teachers in comparative philology congregated as usual in Somerville College for a bread-and-cheese lunch. They were surprised to see on the table a particularly impressive cake, complete with candles. The cake-makers, who included one of the editors of this volume, explained that their opus was meant to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called philological lunches which, as they had discovered, had started in January 1972. These lunches normally prelude to a graduate seminar and there is a close link between the Tuesday seminars and the papers collected in this volume, since a number of them were either presented at the seminar or prompted by work done for it. Volume 7 of Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (OUWPLPP) now provides a more permanent celebration of that thirtieth anniversary and of the long sequence of Tuesday seminars in comparative philology. OUWPLPP 7 concentrates on comparative philology, i.e. on comparative and historical linguistics, just as its predecessor OUWPLPP 3 (1998). The whole series of working papers in linguistics, philology and phonetics was started seven years ago at the prompting of James Higginbotham, Professor of General Linguistics. On that occasion Dr Coleman, the Director of the Phonetics Laboratory, pointed out in the preface to vol. 1 that: General linguistics and phonetics are enjoying something of a revival in Oxford at the moment; comparative philology has long been a research strength. It is indeed true that Oxford has a long tradition in this field — a tradition which goes back to a much earlier period than 1972. The chair of comparative philology was first founded for Friedrich Max Müller in 1868 and was the first chair that the University established at its own expense without being prompted by a benefaction. The first graduate degree in the subject (the Diploma in Comparative Philology, which eventually turned into the current M.Phil. in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology) was established in the late 1920s at a time when in Oxford there were few postgraduate courses, particularly in the Humanities; the first student to obtain the Diploma (1932) xii Anna Morpurgo Davies was C. E. Bazell, who later became the second professor of general linguistics at SOAS following Firth. The first Oxford lecturership in general linguistics dates from 1969 and the professorship from 1978, the phonetics laboratory was established in 1980, but it was only in 1996 that the creation of OUWPLPP marked the fact that after a number of hesitations and difficulties theoretical linguistics, phonetics, comparative philology, and Romance linguistics had succeeded in combining their resources at the graduate level under the aegis of the Committee for Comparative Philology and General Linguistics, the ‘modern’ replacement for the older Committee for Comparative Philology established in 1928. Each volume so far has concentrated on a specific field but clear signs of cross-fertilization are visible in all of them. The papers which the two editors have collected in this volume include work by present and past staff and students of Oxford University. They cover a wide range of subjects and of languages (Vedic, Greek, Latin, Italic, Slavic, etc.). It is pleasing to note that continuity is guaranteed: two of the contributors (John Penney and Elizabeth Tucker) were among the graduate students who participated in the 1972 philological lunches and a third (C. M. Mac Robert) was an undergraduate at the time. The two editors belong to a more recent generation: one is currently working at her Oxford dissertation on Greek onomastics; the other finished last summer his Oxford doctorate on the Languages of Aristophanes and is currently teaching in Basel. We are all very grateful to them for the immense amount of work they put into this volume and the way in which they cheerfully confronted all sorts of problems, from the most scholarly to the most mundane. Last but not least, they had to compound differences which others might have found insurmountable: one is a PC user and the other a Mac person. Among the papers collected here only two cannot be immediately labelled in terms of successive generations of philology students and teachers. T. S. Dhesi was M. Cortina-Borja’s MSc student in the Oxford Department of Statistics when, like one of our first students, D. A. Ringe of the University of Pennsylvania, he became interested in statistical methods for the genetic classification of languages. Here student and teacher present some of the first results of their collaboration. The Oxford English Dictionary is the most important work of lexicography in the English language and is too well known to require an introduction. But not everybody knows that a monumental work of revision of the original edition is currently going on and that the first results are already available on line.