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Aspects of Hittite nominal i-stems
Frantíková, Dita ; Kim, Ronald (advisor) ; Rasmussen, Birgit Anette (referee) ; Yates, Anthony D. (referee)
The present study offers a detailed investigation of two important groups of Hittite nominal i- stems, namely the āi--stems and the so-called "core" i-stems. It is divided into three parts. The first part offers an introduction to the problem of i-stems in PIE and in Hittite itself. The second part comprises the selected lexemes and provides their attestations, information on their inflection and origin. It strives to present a current picture of the synchronic evidence for the selected groups, which is necessary taking into account the rapid progress in Hittite studies. Preliminary conclusions are also provided for the historical analysis of the individual items. The third part builds upon the information gathered about the individual lexical items to offer new views on the ablaut patterns and origins of the words. Besides providing an overview and useful summary, my goal is to confront some of the generalizations previously made about i- stems and offer new solutions, which could also be of a profit to historical linguists outside of Anatolian studies. The major finding of the thesis is the fact that only a very few i- and āi-stem nouns and adjectives can be considered directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
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The development of Proto-Indo-European *y in Armenian
Ivanova, Valerija ; Kim, Ronald (advisor) ; Lipp, Reiner (referee)
The development of Proto-Indo-European *y in Classical Armenian ranks among the most debated questions in Armenian historical phonology. This thesis reexamines all the evidence for the evolution of PIE *y in different phonological contexts, including word-initial position, intervocalically, and in consonant clusters. Special attention is given to the various conditioned outcomes of clusters of consonant + *y and of *y in contact with a laryngeal, as well as the consequences of such developments for Armenian nominal and verbal morphology.
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Tocharian loanwords in Chinese
Židek, Jan ; Kim, Ronald (advisor) ; Elšík, Viktor (referee)
This work was created to review the evidence for lexical borrowing from the Tocharian languages to the Chinese languages. The used methodology relies on lexical lists, previous etymological findings, linguistic typology and anthropological input. For preparatory data manipulation, a set of semi- automatic scripts has been created. Presented is a qualitative research based on previous findings assisted by raw data. The outcome of this work should be testable findings which could be extracted to a computer processable form.
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