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  • LAN volume 42 issue 4-Part1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 42 / Issue 4-Part1 / December 1966
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f2
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  • Original h in Hittite and the Medio-Passive in r

  • E. H. Sturtevant
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 4 / Issue 3-Part1 / September 1928
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    22 April 2026, pp. 159-170

  • I have tried to show (Language 3. 109–22) that Hittite h occurs where the Indo-European languages have bh initial, and I can now make two or three additions to the material there presented. In Language 4. 122 f. I have connected halanta ‘head’ with Greek φαλός·λευκός, φαλακρός ‘bald’, and Sanskrit bhālam ‘forehead’, on the assumption that the original meaning of the Hittite word was ‘bald’. Hittite haš-, hašh- ‘open’, must be identified with IE *bhosos ‘naked’, whence Lithuanian bãsas ‘bare-foot’, Old English bær, etc. The verb pihiš-, which, accompanied by the adverb arha, means ‘strike off, cut off, take off’ or the like, contains the verbal prefix pe-, while hiš- is an extension in s of the root which appears in IE *bhei- ‘strike’ (Old High German bīhal ‘axe’, etc.), and whose extended form *bheid- means ‘split’ (Sanskrit bhinadmi, Latin findo, etc). Another instance of h = bh after the verbal prefix pe- is pehar(k)- ‘hold towards’ (Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi 4. 2. 2. 25, Keilschrift-Urkunden aus Boghazköi 13. 4. 4. 37) beside har(k)- ‘have’ on which see Language 3. 117 f.

  • Visual Morphemes

  • Dwight L. Bolinger
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 22 / Issue 4-Part1 / December 1946
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    22 April 2026, pp. 333-340

  • The fact that most writing is the graphic representation of vocal-auditory processes tends to obscure the fact that writing can exist as a series of morphemes at its own level, independent of or interacting with the more fundamental (or at least more primitive) vocal-auditory morphemes. Recognition of visual morphemes is also hampered by the controversy, not yet subsided, over the primacy of the spoken versus the written; the victory of those who sensibly insist upon language as fundamentally a vocal-auditory process has been so hard won that any concession to writing savors of retreat. Yet, so long as a point-to-point correspondence is maintained, it is theoretically possible to transform any series of morphemes from any sensory field into any other sensory field, and keep them comprehensible; the only condition is that contact with the nervous system be maintained at some point. More than theoretically: it is actually done for the congenitally deaf-and-dumb reader of Braille, who ‘reads’ and ‘comprehends’ with his finger-tips. Just as here is a system of tactile morphemes existing with no connexion (other than historical) with the vocal-auditory field, so there is nothing unscientific in the assumption that a similarly independent visual series may be found.

  • LAN volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Language / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / March 1958
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f5
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