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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
This dissertation aims at an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock
of Armenian with systematic inclusion of the new data. Being an etymological
investigation with specific purposes rather than an etymological dictionary per se, it
focuses on new material and ideas and, consequently, only contains relevant topics
and lexical entries.
As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological
research for over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks,
studies and surveys on comparative Armenian linguistics: Hu�bschmann 1897;
Meillet 1936; A‰ar�HLPatm 1-2, 1940-51; Solta 1960; Godel 1975; Schmitt 1972-74;
1981; J�ahukyan 1972; 1982; 1987; Lamberterie 1992; 1997; Clackson 1994; Olsen
1999; Kortlandt 2003; Beekes 2003.
Almost all of these works, with the exception of A‰ar�yan's fundamental studies
(see below, and 1.1) and J�ahukyan 1972 and 1987, mostly concentrate on Classical
Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. With respect to the comparative
historical evaluation of several dialectal features, the series of papers of Kortlandt
and Weitenberg are particularly important. Middle Armenian is extensively studied
in Karst 1901 (ModArm. transl.: 2002) and "Aknarkner mij�in grakan hayereni
patmut`yan", vols. 1 and 2, Yerevan: University Press, 1972-1975 (see in particular
H. Muradyan 1972 and M. Muradyan 1982).
My study intends to incorporate the lexical, phonetic, and morphological
material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the
Indo-European lexicon. In this respect it is completely new.
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