Kleine Schrifien.

• Author: Jamison, Stephanie W.

Kleine Schrifien. By EVA TICHY, edited by AXEL METZGER. Bremen: HEMPEN VERLAG, 2018. Pp. xviii + 698. [euro]98.

This impressively large volume collects essentially all the publications of the distinguished Indo-Europeanist Eva Tichy, save for her monographs. It consists of thirty-two articles and five book reviews. Curiously, the list of her publications (Schriftenverzeichnis, pp. xiii-xvii) lists only thirty-one articles: number 9 in this volume, "Zur Herkunft und Bedeutung von [phrase omitted]" (1982, Fs. Neumann), is included in the Schriftenverzeichnis under "Beitrage zu Schiften anderer," because, as the starred headnote (p. 191) indicates, the section included here appeared in an article whose other portions were written by Egert Pohlmann. The volume is through-paginated, though the original page numbers are also helpfully provided. Endnotes in the original publications have been converted to footnotes, and the author added a few comments at the time of publication (2018), e.g., the Nachtrag to her 1985 article on Younger Avestan sunis, placed at the end of it, p. 237. Bibliographical references are confined to the separate articles: there is no collective bibliography. But there are volume-wide indices of words, passages, and topics--though given the size of the volume and the range of materials covered, forty pages of indices in total seems inadequate to unlock the riches within.

In the tradition of Erlangen Indo-European Studies, to which she emphatically belongs, the author is best known for her work on archaic Greek and Indo-Iranian. The table of contents (which is chronological) and the trajectory of her publications in fact present as a sort of ring composition, in the mode of archaic Indo-European literature: the first nine articles (1976-1982) primarily concern Greek materials; many of the articles in the middle period (1983-2008) focus on Indo-Iranian; and the last three articles included in this volume (2009-18) return to Greek, especially to the prehistory of the hexameter. Given the disciplinary focus of JAOS, the review will not deal further with the substantial and important articles on Greek, but concentrate on those concerning Indo-Iranian and the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.

Tichy's work might be characterized as clustering at two ends of a spectrum, the very macro and the very micro. On the one hand, she is deeply concerned with abstract grammatical categories--how they can be defined, how they develop and...