Reviews for The Early Stages of Creolization

The average rating for The Early Stages of Creolization based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-14 00:00:00 Michael Alexakos COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric ed. Brogyanyi and Lipp (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1993) is the last of three volumes dedicated to Professor Oswald Szemerenyi on the occasion of his 75th birthday. As this is a huge volume with many papers, this is no space to review them all and I will mention only those which I found interesting. Anyone getting excited by the mention of the Finno-Ugrian languages in the book's title may be a little disappointed. Out of the 571 pages in the book, only 50 are found under this category, and one of them is about only the Turkic languages. Still, there's good material here. Gabor Bereczki contributes a highly informative but concise paper on Turkic influence on the Finno-Ugrian languages. Gyula Decsy makes the case for a Volga-Finnic proto-family based on some lexical innovations. Most entertaining is Denis Sinor's convincing argument that English "hullabaloo" is from a Common Turkic expression that still survives in many of the Turkic languages. Some of the papers on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European represent the end of an era: the last scholars to reject the existence of three (or four) laryngeals in PIE. Schmalstieg contribues a short paper trying to keep alive his theory that monophthongizations occured just before the breakup of the proto-language. On the other hand, papers like Hoenigswald's "On Indoeuropean [sic] laryngeals after word-initial s-" stands at the cutting-edge of the field. There are also a number of papers here on the individual branches of Indo-European, ranging from Kim R. McCone's search for the etymology of Old Irish torc "boar" to Hock's critical examinations of early Sanskrit passages to see whether there is dialectal diversity.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-06-15 00:00:00 Keri Valdez It is good.They are at camp and is about God.You should get it out