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Inhalt: Preface Danny L. Bate and Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad: Wackernagel's Law in Vedic and Old Irish John Clayton: The Identity of pīlu in Atharvaveda Paippalāda 7.19: Vedic Arboreal Terminology and Etymology Setayesh Dashti: Non-postnominal Relativization in Old Avestan Jessica Delisi: Aufugiō, Aspellō, and Āmittō: Why Run Away from Latin Ab- Jasmim Drigo and Yexin Qu: Old Irish Nasalizing Relative Clauses Joseph F. Eska: Graphemic Markedness and Celtiberian Plosive Phonology Giulio Imberciadori: On Tocharian B śrāy pl.'men'Ronald I. Kim: East Iranian Nominal Inflection Revisited Angelo O. Mercado: Form and Structure in the Greco-Aryan Octosyllable Elisa Migliaretti: The Rhythmic Basis of Porson's Bridge: An Explanation of Monosyllabic Words and Clitics Artin Nasirpour: Old Slavic Dialectology: Salient Features of Old Novgorodian and Evidence for a North Slavic Subgrouping Blanca María Prósper: The Inscriptions of Todi (Umbria) and Vergiate (Transpadana): A Study in Cisalpine Celtic Epigraphic Habits, Noun Morphology, and the Linguistic Classification of Lepontic Andreas Willi: Morphological Supply in Response to Systemic Demand: The Greek Past Iteratives from Birth to Death List of Contributors Index Verborum

The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the Americas. Clause chains consist of several dependent clauses and one main clause, and are used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants; they often go together with switch-reference marking, an indication of whether upcoming subjects will be co-referential with preceding subjects or not. The introductory chapter features a discussion of the typological properties of clause chaining, with a brief overview of previous approaches to and investigations of clause chains followed by an overview of their recurrent grammatical features; it ends with an appendix featuring notes for fieldworkers. The first part of the book explores general issues in clause chaining, including prosody, acquisition, and language contact and history; later parts then examine clause chaining and related phenomena in a wide range of languages from around the world.