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2Final Hymn of the RigvedaJournal of the American Oriental Society 144 (2): 417-420. 2024.The final hymn of the Rigveda, 10.191, the last three stanzas of which are dedicated to saṃjñānam ‘unity’, plays in a remarkable way with the preposition/prefix sam(-) ‘with; together’ and the phonetic sequence mā̆n. Some of the words with mā̆n go back to Proto-Indo-European *men ‘think’ (mánas- ‘mind, intellect, thought’, mántra- ‘utterance, spell’, and mantraye ‘I utter an utterance, recite a spell’); others are forms of the adjective samāná- ‘common, the same’. This brief communicati…Read more
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5A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 100 (4): 454-455. 2007.
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5A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the PresentClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 100 (4): 454-455. 2007.
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7Moussy La Composition et la préverbation en latin. Pp. 362. Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005. Paper, €22. ISBN: 2-84050-352-2 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 142-144. 2006.
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7Erotic Hardening And Softening In Vergil's Eighth EclogueClassical Quarterly 56 (1): 169-174. 2006.
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10How the Mole and Mongoose Got Their Names: Sanskrit Akhu- and nakula-Journal of the American Oriental Society 122 (2): 296-310. 2002.
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2Why Libertarians Should Reject Positive RightsLibertarian Papers 1 6. 2009.Maloberti, in “Why Libertarians Should Accept Positive Rights” argues that, as normally presented, libertarianism entails anarchism. He argues that libertarians should, therefore, accept a limited form of positive rights, which will allow for the creation of a libertarian government. In this paper, it is argued that the entailment of anarchism is not a problem for libertarianism, and that the form of positive rights endorsed by Maloberti is unfounded, ill-defined, and inconsistent with libertari…Read more
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5Latin Compounds T. Lindner: Lateinische Komposita. Morphologische, historische und lexikalische Studien . (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 105.) Pp. 378. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2002. Cased, €64. ISBN: 3-85124-686- (review)The Classical Review 55 (1): 104. 2005.
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4Moussy (C.) (ed.) La Composition et la préverbation en latin . (Lingua Latina 8.) Pp. 362. Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005. Paper, €22. ISBN: 2-84050-352- (review)The Classical Review 56 (01): 142-. 2006.
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5A History of the Animal World in the Ancient near EastJournal of the American Oriental Society 123 (4): 887. 2003.
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2The origin of the pluperfect is the biggest remaining hole in our understanding of the Ancient Greek verbal system. This paper provides a novel unitary account of all four morphological types - alphathematic, athematic, thematic, and the anomalous Homeric form 3sg. ᾔδη (ēídē) 'knew' beginning with a 'Jasanoff-type' reconstruction in Proto-Indo-European, an 'imperfect of the perfect.'.
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9Erotic hardening and softening in Vergil's eighth eclogueClassical Quarterly 56 (01): 169-. 2006.
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3What Linguists are Good ForClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 100 (2): 99-112. 2007.
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