125 Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz: Festband anlasslich des 125 jahrigen Bestehens der Forschungsrichtung "Indogermanistik" an der Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz.

• Author: Melchert, H. Craig
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125 Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz: Festband anlasslich des 125 jahrigen Bestehens der Forschungsrichtung "Indogermanistik" an der Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. Edited by MICHAELA OFITSCH and CHRISTIAN ZINKO. Graz: LEYKAM, 2000. Pp. xxvii + 566 (paper).

This volume contains papers from a colloquium celebrating the 125th anniversary of Indo-European studies at the University of Graz, and other essays solicited to mark the occasion. The papers are preceded by a brief essay on the history of the program by F. L.ochner von Huttenbach and followed by extremely useful subject and word indices.

Six scholars have occupied the Indo-European chair in Graz: Johannes Schmidt, Gustav Meyer, Rudolf Meringer, Hans Reichelt, Wilhelm Brandenstein, and Hermann Mittelberger (there was for a time also an Indo-Iranian chair held by Jo-hann Kirste). While quite diverse, the contents of the volume do appropriately tend to reflect specialties pursued with particular distinction in Graz: methodology and models of language change, IndoEuropean culture, toponyms, Indo-Iranian, Greek, and Anatolian. Several authors take analyses of the scholars named above as their starting point or offer appreciations of their research.

Methodological considerations are prominent in the articles of P. de Bernardo Stempel, W. Euler, B. Forssman, T. Gainkrelidze, B. Hurch, J. Knobloch, K.-H. Schmidt, R. Stempel, and R. Vollmann. I find that of R. Matasovic on the use and misuse of typology in Indo-European linguistics especially useful. The category of the PIE dual is illuminated by complementary analyses of M. Fritz, R. Luhr, and M. Malzahn. Toponyms, particularly those of Austria, are the subject of essays by P. Anreiter, T. Lindner, F Lochner von Huttenbach, and H.-D. Pohl.

A. Lubotsky offers a persuasive solution to the puzzle of Indo-Aryan "six," with consequences for the PIE word. S. Fritz and J. Gippert extend our perspective on Indo-European to the historical phonology of...