Alexander Lubotsky: list of publications

Monographs:

  • 1. The system of nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto‑Indo‑European, Leiden: Brill (1988) [xix + 196 pp.].
  • 2. A Rgvedic Word Concordance. 2 Vols. (American Oriental Series, Vols. 82 and 83.) New Haven (American Oriental Society), 1997 [xii + 1667pp.].
  • 3. Het vuur na aan de Indo-Europese schenen leggen: over de reconstructie van betekenis. Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Vergelijkende Indo-Europese Taalwetenschap aan de Universiteit Leiden, 2 maart 2001 (Inaugural lecture).
  • 4. Atharvaveda-Paippalāda, kāṇḍa five. Text, translation, commentary. (Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, Vol. 4). Cambridge (Mass.), 2002 [241pp.].
  • 5. Van Sanskriet tot Spijkerschrift. Breinbrekers uit alle talen. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. [151pp.] [co-author: Michiel de Vaan]
  • 6. Alanic marginal notes in a Greek liturgical manuscript. Wien: Verlag der Österrei­chischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015 [69 pp. + 30 pictures], translated into Russian as “Аланские маргинальные заметки в греческом литургическом манускрипте (= Alanic marginal notes in a Greek liturgical manuscript)” and “Аланский текст в “Теогонии” Иоанна Цеца (= The Alanic text in Tzetzes’ “Theogonia”)” in: Памятники аланского языка и письма (= Monuments of the Alanic language and script). Moscow: Nauka, 2016, 89-140 and 141-160, respectively.

Articles:

  • 1. Gr. pḗgnumi : Skt. pajrá- and loss of laryngeals before mediae in Indo‑Iranian, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 40 (1981), 133‑138.
  • 2. On the reduced grade ‑a‑ in Sanskrit. Lingua 55 (1981), 75‑95.
  • 3. On the alliteration in ‘The guesting of Athirne’, Ériu 33 (1982), 170‑171.
  • 4. On the external sandhis of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, Indo‑Iranian Journal (1983) 25, 167‑179.
  • 5. The PIE word for ‘dry’, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 98 (1985), 1‑10.
  • 6. The Old Phrygian Areyastis‑inscription. Kadmos 27,1 (1988), 9‑26.
  • 7. Tocharian A ṣurm, B ṣarm ‘cause’ and A ṣul, B ṣale ‘mountain’. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 2 (1988), 89‑95.
  • 8. Against a Proto‑Indo‑European phoneme *a. The New Sound of Indo‑European. Essays in Phonological Reconstruction, Th. Vennemann (ed.), Berlin ‑ New York 1989, 53‑66.
  • 9. The Vedic -aya-formations. Indo‑Iranian Journal 32 (1989), 89‑113.
  • 10. New Phrygian ετι and τι. Kadmos 28/1 (1989), 79‑88.
  • 11. The syntax of the New Phrygian inscription No. 88. Kadmos 28/2 (1989), 146‑155.
  • 12. La loi de Brugmann et *H3e‑. La reconstruction des laryngales (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liège, fascicule CCLIII). No editor. Liège-Paris 1990, 129‑136.
  • 13. Vedijskaja imennaja akcentuacija i problema praindoevropejskix tonov. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 1991/1, 20‑48.
  • 14. Van taalreconstructie naar taaltheorie. Indogermanistisch werk van F. de Saussure en zijn Cours de linguistique générale. Forum der Letteren 33 (1992), 5‑10.
  • 15. The Indo‑Iranian laryngeal accent shift and its relative chronology. Rekonstruktion und relative Chronologie. Akten der VIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Leiden, 31. August ‑ 4. September 1987, R. Beekes, A. Lubotsky, J. Weitenberg (eds.). Innsbruck 1992, 261‑269.
  • 16. The “Sarvatobhadra” temple of the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa and the Viṣṇu temple at Deogarh. Ritual, State and History in South Asia. Essays in Honour of J.C. Heesterman, A.W. van den Hoek, D.H.A. Kolff, M.S. Oort (eds.). Leiden, etc. 1992, 199‑221.
  • 17. Nasalization of the final a in the Rgveda. Indo‑Iranian Journal 36 (1993), 197‑210.
  • 18. Word boundaries in the Old Phrygian Germanos inscription. Epigraphica anatolica 21 (1993), 93‑98.
  • 19. New Phrygian υψoδαv. Kadmos 32/2 (1993), 127‑134.
  • 20. RV. ávidhat. Früh‑, Mittel‑, Spätindogermanisch. Akten der IX. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 5. bis 9. Oktober 1992 in Zürich, George E. Dunkel, Gisela Meyer, Salvatore Scarlata, Christian Seidl (eds.). Wiesbaden 1994, 201‑206.
  • 21. The original paradigm of the Tocharian word for ‘king’, Tocharisch. Akten der Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft. Berlin, September 1990 (Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, Supplementary Series 4), B. Schlerath (ed.). Reykjavík 1994, 66‑72.
  • 22. Avestan θβōrəštar- and the Indo-European root *turk-. Die Sprache 36/1 (1994), 94‑102.
  • 23. Accentuation in the technique of the Vedic poets. Studies in Poetics. Commemorative Volume Krystyna Pomorska, E. Semeka‑Pankratov (ed.). Columbus, Ohio 1995, 515‑534.
  • 24. Sanskrit h < *dh, bh. Sthāpakashrāddham, Professor G.A. Zograf Commemorative Volume, N.V. Gurov and Ja.V. Vasil’kov (eds.), St. Petersburg 1995, 124-144.
  • 25. Vedic samaha ‘verily’. Indo-Iranian Journal 38 (1995), 257-260.
  • 26. Reflexes of intervocalic laryngeals in Sanskrit. Kuryłowicz Memorial Volume. Part One, W. Smoczyński (ed.). Cracow 1995, 213-33.
  • 27. The iconography of the Viṣṇu temple at Deogarh and the Viṣṇudharmottarapu­rāṇ­a. Ars Orientalis 26 (1996), 65-80.
  • 28. The Indo-Iranian reflexes of PIE *CRHUV. Sound Law and Analogy. Papers in honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the occasion of his 60th birthday, A. Lubotsky (ed.). Amsterdam – Atlanta 1997, 139-154.
  • 29. New Phrygian inscription No. 48: palaeographic and linguistic comments. Frigi e Frigio. Atti del 1°  Simposio Internazionale. Roma, 16-17 ottobre 1995. R. Gusmani, M. Salvini, P. Vannicelli (eds.). Roma 1997, 115-130.
  • 30. Remarks on the Vedic intensive. Journal of the American Oriental Society 117 (1997), 558-564.
  • 31. Review of: Thomas M. Scheerer, Ferdinand de Saussure: Rezeption und Kritik. Darmstadt, 1980. Bibliotheca Orientalis 39 (3/4) (1982), 483‑485.
  • 32. New Phrygian metrics and the δεως ζεμελως formula. Mír curad. Studies in honor of Calvert Watkins, Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert and Lisi Oliver (eds.), Innsbruck 1998, 413-421.
  • 33. Tocharian loan words in Old Chinese: Chariots, chariot gear, and town building. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, Victor H. Mair (ed.), Washington D.C. 1998, 379-390.
  • 34. Observations on the longest birchbark letter (Novgorod 531). Russian Linguistics 22 (1998), 143-164. [co-author: Willem Vermeer]
  • 35. Avestan xvarənah-: the etymology and concept. Sprache und Kultur. Akten der X. Fachtagung der Indo-germanischen Gesellschaft Innsbruck, 22.-28. September 1996, W. Meid (ed.), Innsbruck 1998, 479-488.
  • 36. Avestan āsitō.gātu-. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 91-94.
  • 37. Avestan zruuan-. ΠOΛΥTROΠON. To 70th birthday of Vladimir Toporov, T.M. Nikolaeva, et al. (eds.), Moscow (Indrik) 1998, 73-85.
  • 38. Vedic roots of the type *TERDh–. Studia indogermanica Lodziensia (FS. I. Danka) 2 (1998), 75-81.
  • 39. Avestan compounds and the RUKI-rule. Compositiones indogermanicae in memoriam Jochem Schindler, H. Eichner und H.C. Luschützky (eds.). Praha 1999, 299-322.
  • 40. Postscript on Vedic jaṅgahe. Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999) 480-481. [co-author: Arlo Griffiths]
  • 41. The Vedic root vr̥- ‘to cover’ and its present. Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik. Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 2. bis 5. Oktober in Erlangen. B. Forssman, R. Plath (eds.), Wiesbaden 2000, 315-325.
  • 42. Indo-Aryan ‘six’. 125 Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz. Arbeiten aus der Abteilung “Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft” Graz, M. Ofitsch, Chr. Zinko (eds.), Graz 2000, 255-261.
  • 43. Reflexes of Proto-Indo-European *sk in Indo-Iranian. Incontri linguistici 24 (2001), 25-57.
  • 44. The Indo-Iranian substratum. Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations. Papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki 8-10 January 1999. (Mémoires de la Société Finno-ougrienne 242.) Chr. Carpelan, A. Parpola, P. Koskikallio (eds.). Helsinki 2001, 301-317.
  • 45. The Indo-Iranian word for ‘shank, shin’. Journal of the American Oriental Society 122 (2002), 318-324.
  • 46. Scythian elements in Old Iranian. Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples (Centennial Bailey), N. Sims-Williams (ed.) (= Proceedings of the British Academy 116), London 2002, 189-202.
  • 47. Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian. Language in time and space. A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Brigitte L.M. Bauer, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.), Berlin – New York 2003, 257-269[co-author: S. Starostin].
  • 48. Paippalāda-Samhitā 4.15. To heal an open fracture: with a plant. Die Sprache 42, 1/2 2000/01 [2003], 196-210 [co-author: A. Griffiths]
  • 49. Avestan siiazd-, Sanskrit sedh-, Latin cēdere ‘to flinch’. Per aspera ad asteriscos. Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson and Thomas Olander (eds.), Innsbruck 2004, 323-332.
  • 50. Vedic pr̥dākusānu. Indo-Iranian Journal 47 (2004), 1-6.
  • 51. The Phrygian Zeus and the problem of the “Lautverschiebung”. Historische Sprachforschung 117 (2004), 229-237.
  • 52. Alanic marginal notes in a Byzantine manuscript: a preliminary report. Nartamongae: the Journal of Alano-Ossetic Studies 2 (2003 [2004]), 41-46 [co-author: Sysse Engberg].
  • 53. Indo-European ‘heel’. Studi linguistici in onore di Roberto Gusmani, R. Bombi, G. Cifoletti, F. Fusco, L. Innocente, & V. Orioles (eds.),  Alessandria 2006, 1005-1010.
  • 54. Sanskrit na-participles and the glottalic theory. Verba Docenti, Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends, Alan J. Nussbaum (ed.). Ann Arbor – New York 2007, 231-235.
  • 55. PS 8.15. Offense against a Brahmin. The Atharvaveda and its Paippalādasākhā. Historical and Philological Papers on a Vedic Tradition, A. Griffiths, A. Schmiedchen (eds.). Aachen 2007, 23-33.
  • 56. Old Phrygian bevdos ‘statue’, Greek βευδoς ‘woman’s dress’. Journal of Indo-European Studies 36 (2008) 96-98.
  • 57. Vedic ‘ox’ and ‘sacrificial cake’. Evidence and Counter-Evidence, Essays in honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume I: Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Linguistics. A. Lubotsky, J. Schaeken, J. Wiedenhof (eds.). Amsterdam – New York 2008, 351-360.
  • 58. The Indo-Iranian root *stig-. Indologica. T. Ya. Elizarenkova Memorial Volume, Book 1, L. Kulikov, M. Rusanov (eds.). Moscow 2008, 305-313.
  • 59. Three New-Phrygian inscriptions. Kadmos 47 (2008), 109-116. [co-authors: Th. Drew-Bear and M. Üyümez]
  • 60. Two words for ‘sister-in-law’? Notes on Vedic yātar- and giri-. Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran. Études indo-iranniennes et indo-européennes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, É. Pirart, X. Tremblay (eds.), Wiesbaden 2009, 115-121. [co-author:  Arlo Griffiths]
  • 61. Altpersisch. Sprachen aus der Welt des Alten Testaments, H. Gzella (ed.), Darmstadt 2009, 160-174. [co-author: Michiel de Vaan]
  • 62. Proto-Indo-European *tsel- ‘to sneak’ and Germanic *stelan- ‘to steal, approach stealthily’, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 14 (2009), 237-241. [co-author: Guus Kroonen]
  • 63. New words and word forms in the Atharva-Veda Paippalāda (Kāṇḍa 5). Language, ritual and poetics in ancient India and Iran: Studies in honor of Shaul Migron, D. Shulman (ed.), Jerusalem 2010, 39-65.
  • 64. Kto byli zhiteli Gonura i na kakom jazyke oni govorili [Who were the inhabitants of Gonur and what language did they speak?]. On the track of uncovering a civilization. A volume in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victor Sarianidi, P.M. Kozhin, M.F. Kosarev, N.A. Dubova (eds.), (Transactions of the Margiana archaeological expedition), 3, Sankt-Petersburg 2010, 18-22.
  • 65. The origin of Sanskrit roots of the type sīv- ‘to sew’, dīv- ‘to play dice’, with an appendix on Vedic i-perfects. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Indo-European Conference, Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, Brent Vine (eds.), Bremen 2011, 105-126.
  • 66. An Alanic marginal note and the exact date of John II’s battle with the Pechenegs. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 103 (2011), 595-603. [co-author: S.A. Ivanov]
  • 67. Old Persian. Languages from the World of the Bible, H. Gzella (ed.), Boston/Berlin 2011, 194-208. [co-author:  Michiel de Vaan]
  • 68. The Old Persian month name viyax(a)na-, Avestan viiāx(a)na- ‘eloquent, bragging’ and Ossetic festivals. V. Sadovski and D. Stifter (eds.), Iranistische und indogermanistische Beiträge in Memoriam Jochem Schindler (1944-1994). Wien: Verlag der ÖAW, 2012, pp. 95-106.
  • 69. Dissimilatory loss of i in Sanskrit. Roman Sukač & Ondřej Šefčík (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European 2. Papers on Indo-European Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics. (LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 41). München: LINCOM, 2012, 177-181.
  • 70. The Vedic paradigm for ‘water’. Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau, Michael Weiss (eds.),  Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European Linguistics in Honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday  Ann Arbor – New York: Beech Stave Press, 2013, 159-164.
  • 71. Frigijskij jazyk [The Phrygian language]. In: Yu.B. Koryakov, A.A. Kibrik (eds.) Jazyki mira: Reliktovye indoevropejskie jazyki Perednej i Central’noj Azii [Languages of the World: Relict Indo-European languages of Western and Central Asia]. Moscow: Academia, 2013, 180-195. [co-author: Orsat Ligorio]
  • 72. Hittite nai-, nē-, Sanskrit nī-, and the PIE verbal root *(s)neh1-. In: H. Craig Melchert, Elisabeth Rieken, Thomas Steer (eds.), Munus amicitiae. Norbert Oettinger a collegis et amicis dicatum. Ann Arbor – New York: Beech Stave Press, 2014, 126-137. [co-author: Alwin Kloekhorst]
  • 73. Paippalādasaṃhitā 4.14. Removing an arrow-tip from the body. Eurasian Studies: Journal for Balkan, Eastern Mediterranean, Anatolian, Middle E astern, Iranian and Central Asian studies 12 (2014), 23-40. [co-author: Arlo Griffiths]
  • 74. Alanic marginal notes in a Greek liturgical manuscript. Wien: Verlag der Österrei­chi­schen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse, no. 859), 2015 [69 pp. + 30 plates].
  • 75. Аланские маргинальные заметки в греческом литургическом манускрипте (= Alanic marginal notes in a Greek liturgical manuscript). In: Памятники аланского языка и письма (= Monuments of the Alanic language and script). Moscow: Nauka, 2016, 89-140.
  • 76. Аланский текст в “Теогонии” Иоанна Цеца (= The Alanic text in Tzetzes’ “Theogonia”). In: Памятники аланского языка и письма (= Monuments of the Alanic language and script). Moscow: Nauka, 2016, 141-160.
  • 77. The Phrygian inscription from Dokimeion and its meter. In: I. Hajnal, D. Kölligan, K. Zipser (eds.), Miscellanea Indogermanica. Festschrift für José Luis García Ramón zum 65. Geburtstag. Innsbruck: IBS, 2017, 427-431.
  • 78. Proto-Indo-Iranian phonology, in: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton 2018, 1875-1888.
  • 79. Phrygian, in: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton 2018, 1816-1831 [together with O. Ligorio].
  • 80. The Indo-European suffix *-ens– and its Indo-Uralic origin, in: A. Kloekhorst, T. Pronk (eds.), The precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2019, 151-162.
  • 81. A New Phrygian inscription from Kadınkuyu, in: C. Le Feuvre, D. Petit (eds.), Ὀνομάτων ἵστωρ, Mélanges offerts à Charles de Lamberterie, Louvain: Peeters 2020, 515-520.
  • 82. An idol-shaped stele with an Old Phrygian inscription in the territory of Nakoleia. Gephyra 19 (2020), 45-67 [together with Rahşan Tamsü Polat and Yusuf Polat].
  • 83. What language was spoken by the people of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? In: Paul W. Kroll, Jonathan A. Silk (eds.), “At the Shores of the Sky”: Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020, 5-11.
  • 84. Sanskrit roots hi- ‘to impel, hurl’, hiṣ- ‘to injure, harm’, hīḍ- ‘to make/be angry’ and the Indo-European root enlargements ­s- and -d-. Historische Sprachforschung 131 (2018 [2021]), 227–235.
  • 85. Indo-Iranian *mastr̥ghan-/ *mastr̥ǰhan- ‘brain, skull’ and its etymology. Iran and the Caucasus 25 (2021), 66-73.
  • 86. Indo-Aryan o(a)u̯artanna in the Kikkuli treatise, in: H. Fellner, M. Malzahn, M. Peyrot, lyuke wmer ra. Indo-European Studies in honor of Georges-Jean Pinault, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, 2021, 331-336 [together with A. Kloekhorst].
  • 87. Young Avestan pašne and its etymology. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 18.1 (2022), 216–225.

 

In press:

  • Fire and Water: Archaeology and Linguistics, together with A. Epimakhov. Gothenburg volume.
  • Indo-European and Indo-Iranian wagon terminology and the date of the Indo-Iranian split. Gothenburg volume.

In preparation:

  • 1. Etymological dictionary of Proto-Indo-Iranian.

Edited volumes:

  • 1. Rekonstruktion und relative Chronologie. Akten der VIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Leiden, 31. August – 4. September 1987, edd. R. Beekes, A. Lubotsky, J. Weitenberg. Innsbruck (IBS) 1992.
  • 2. Jörundur Hilmarsson†, Materials for a Tocharian Historical and Etymological Dictionary, edited by Alexander Lubotsky and Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir with the assistance of Sigurður H. Pálsson. Reykjavík (Málvísindastofnun Háskola Íslands) 1996.
  • 3. F.B.J. Kuiper, Selected writings on Indian linguistics and philology, Edited by A. Lubotsky, M.S. Oort and M. Witzel. Amsterdam –  Atlanta (Rodopi) 1997.
  • 4. Sound Law and Analogy. Papers in honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ed. by Alexander Lubotsky. Amsterdam –  Atlanta (Rodopi) 1997.
  • 5. Evidence and Counter-Evidence, Essays in honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume 1: Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Linguistics [616pp.]. Volume 2: General linguistics [428pp.]. A. Lubotsky, J. Schaeken, J. Wiedenhof (eds.). Amsterdam – New York 2008.

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