Table of contents of शब्दानुगमः: Indian linguistic studies in honor of George Cardona. Volume 2: Historical linguistics, Vedic, etc.

• Preface ... 3.
• Contributors ... xi.
• Tables of contents ... xv.
• Formation of the Indo-Iranian languages: locations and dates according to archaeological evidence by Asko Parpola. ... 1.
• Stative perfects by Don Ringe. ... 85.
• Ved. -anta, Gk. -οντο, and the thematic aorist in Vedic and Greek by Laura Grestenberger. ... 99.
• A deeper look at Vedic vidh- and Old Avestan vīd- ‘honor, serve’ by Adam A. Catt. ... 127.
• Avestan meter and the problem of catalectic pādas by William W. Malandra. ... 153.
• The development of r-clusters and syllabic r̥ in the Aśokan Rock Edicts by Yasuko Suzuki. ... 171.
• Vedic view of language as power by ShashiPrabha Kumar. ... 207.
• How to define the god of fire: fresh perspectives on Yāska’s etymologies of agni by Yuto Kawamura ... 221.
• Testing the Anukramaṇī by George Dunkel. ... 241.
• The changing face of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda by Madhav M. Deshpande. ... 259.
• Tat tvam asi once again: philological and linguistic considerations by Hans Henrich Hock. ... 277.
• Dual varṇa in Vedic texts by Lauren M. Bausch. ... 293.
• On the poetics of the first poem: genre, aesthetics, and sentiment in the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa by Robert P. Goldman. ... 323.
• Layers of Memory: some Homeric problems from a Vedic (and Old English) perspective by Edwin D. Floyd. ... 355.
• Why did Bharata mention just four figures of speech? by Edwin Gerow. ... 391.
• Lost in edition: punctuation in an Indian monastic code by Joseph LaRose. ... 403.
• On the unreliability of Tibetan translations for the reconstruction of the original text of Buddhist Sanskrit works: observations on rNgog lo tsa ba’s translation of Yamāri’s Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāranibandha by Eli Franco and Karin Preisendanz. ... 421.
• The theory of demonstration in the Nyāyabhāṣya: the preceding stage of Dignāga’s apoha theory by Kyo Kano. ... 459.
• Arthāpatti in Kumārila’s Tantravārttika by Kiyotaka Yoshimizu. ... 489.
• Some remarks on word order in Garhwali and Kashmiri by Peter Edwin Hook ... 523.
• Index of primary texts cited ... 533.
• Author index ... 537.