Oswald Szemerényi — Oswald John Louis Szemerényi (7 September 1913 in London – 29 December 1996 in Freiburg) was a Hungarian Indo Europeanist with strong interests in comparative linguistics in general. He was educated in Hungary, at Eötvös Loránd University, and he … Wikipedia
Stang's law — is a Proto Indo European phonological rule named after Norwegian linguist Christian Stang. The law governs the word final sequences of a vowel, followed by a laryngeal or a semivowel */y/ or */w/, followed by a nasal, and according to the law… … Wikipedia
Osthoff's law — is an Indo European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by a resonant (PIE *m, *n, *l, *r, *y, *w), followed in turn by another consonant (i.e. in a closed syllable environment). It is named after German Indo Europeanist … Wikipedia
List of eponymous laws — This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person. In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson s law. In others, the work or… … Wikipedia
Indo-European sound laws — As the Proto Indo European language (PIE) broke up, its sound system diverged as well, according to various sound laws in the daughter languages. Notable among these are Grimm s law in Proto Germanic, loss of prevocalic *p in Proto Celtic, loss… … Wikipedia
Proto-Indo-European phonology — The phonology of the Proto Indo European language (PIE) has been reconstructed by linguists, based on the similarities and differences among current and extinct Indo European languages. Because PIE was not written, linguists must rely on the… … Wikipedia
Vowel length — IPA vowel length aː aˑ IPA number 503 or 504 Encoding Entity … Wikipedia
Comparative method — This article is about the comparative method in linguistics. For other kinds of comparative methods, see Comparative (disambiguation). Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method. Here the… … Wikipedia
Centum-satem isogloss — Centum redirects here. For other uses, see Centum (disambiguation). Very approximate diachronic map showing the centum (blue, except that Tocharian on the east is grey) and satem (red) areals. The hypothetical area of origin of satemization… … Wikipedia
Indo-European languages — Indo European redirects here. For other uses, see Indo European (disambiguation). See also: List of Indo European languages Indo European Geographic distribution: Before the 16th century, Europe, and South, Central and Southwest Asia; today… … Wikipedia