Index
agreement
nominal agreement
7, 215
verbal agreement
219
alignment
ergative-absolutive
7
archives
Anatolian archives
235
Egyptian archives
174
Persian archives
77n100
assimilation (cultural)
28
assimilation (phonetic)
6, 100, 103, 107, 155, 159, 284
bilingual letters
175, 184
bilingualism
104, 115, 117, 117n4, 122, 155, 184
borrowing
134, 144, 170, 170n1, 280
borrowability of numerals
108
lexical borrowings
226
syntactic borrowings
212n5
borrowing (cultural)
7
borrowings of literary motifs
13, 32
borrowing of religious features
207
clitics
64, 74, 74n85, 217, 241–243, 250
pronominal clitics
219
codeswitching
110
collocation
175
compensatory lengthenings
64, 280, 281
compounds
52, 62, 67, 67n56, 214, 261n8, 271, 278n9, 287n44, 294, 304
conjunctions
7, 69n67, 235, 237, 241, 243
contact
substrate
145, 153–157, 162
superstrate
227–229
theory of language contact
2, 13, 137, 143
copula
7, 215, 216, 218–221
Cowgill’s Law
276, 282
deities
21, 24, 28, 196, 204
Anatolian deities
23–28, 203–208
Greek deities
15, 196
Iranian deities
23, 23n20, 254–255, 261, 267
Near-Eastern deities
28, 33
diachrony
219, 301
diachronic changes
7, 22, 78, 211
diachronic variation
234, 260
diglossia
255, 257, 266
formula
xiii, 7, 15, 31, 69, 167, 175, 180, 243, 248, 250, 290
genitive
genitive agents
7
grammaticalisation
68, 69n67, 221, 221n26, 222
idiolects
166, 184, 224
idiom
69, 73n78, 167, 243
interference
108, 166, 168, 180, 183, 185, 186
lexical interference
223
morphological interference
110
phonetic interference
2, 101, 110
shift-induced transfer
137
syntactic interference
184
L1
116, 118, 121, 122, 139, 142, 143, 145, 156, 158, 162, 167, 184, 185
L2
6, 118–125, 133, 137, 139, 142, 145, 156
language death
212, 227, 229
lexical oppositions
261, 262
loanwords
105, 108, 110, 115, 122, 137, 140, 170, 212, 260
multilingualism
116, 119, 225
negation
49, 51, 53, 58, 60, 65, 75, 76, 304, 306
nominalisation
293, 307
non-active → Vedi passive
7, 179, 301
non-linguistic causes for language contact
religious causes
208, 223
socio-political causes
170, 223, 224, 227
numerals
54, 73–75, 75n88, 77, 104, 106, 108, 138, 213
perfect
212, 216, 221, 229, 289
periphrastic perfect
x, 211, 214, 219, 221, 229
pie
IX, X, 1, 20, 52, 67, 71, 75n88, 276–277, 279, 281–282, 288–289, 291, 294, 301–305, 307–8, 310
pragmatics
173, 175, 183, 248, 301
prefixation
60, 145
pronouns
69, 241
anaphoric pronouns
244
demonstrative pronouns
246
indefinite pronouns
49, 58, 64, 65, 70, 72, 73
interrogative pronouns
59, 67
reflexive pronouns
140
relative pronouns
64, 72
resumptive pronouns
77
reconstruction (cultural)
ix, 11–13, 33
reconstruction (linguistic)
ix, 2, 12, 162, 261, 301
reduplication patterns
60, 62n39, 66n53, 67n56, 140
register
7, 48, 171, 180, 234, 235, 247, 250, 261
relative clauses
57, 66, 67, 70
ritual
7, 15, 68, 203
sociolinguistics
3, 142
synonyms
258, 277
tam
aspect
141, 310
tense
215, 216, 236, 309
textual genres
235, 243
legal
22, 242, 248
legal documents
116, 234, 235, 244, 247
literary
90, 143, 180, 266
liturgic
227
narrative
244
poetic
260
private letters
118, 167
typology
13, 33, 57, 88, 92, 124, 137, 142, 280, 309
variation
22, 97, 107
allophonic variation
91, 120
morphological variation
117, 125
morphosyntactic
116
orthographic variation
115, 183
phonetic variation
144
phonological variation
115, 117, 123
sociolinguistic variation
ix
verbal complementation patterns
184, 187
asyndetic
172, 173
clausal
172, 173, 176
dependent
173
factive
172
independent
173, 183
infinitival
167, 184
nominal
173
syndetic
172, 173
writing supports
inscriptions
68, 89, 94, 98, 108, 109, 171, 227, 234, 248, 250
manuscripts
4, 5, 234n5
papyri
109, 125, 167, 173
tablets
55, 66, 75, 77, 235
writing systems
Armenian alphabet
228
Coptic alphabet
170
cuneiform
48, 48n2, 65
Greek alphabet
153, 168, 170
Linear Elamite
48n2