Maiores Philologiae Pontes

Festschrift fur Michael Meier-Brugger zum 70. Geburtstag.

Edited by Matthias Fritz Edited by Tomoki Kitazumi Edited by Marina Veksina

Book cover: Maiores Philologiae Pontes

Extent: 270 pages

Publisher: Beech Stave Press

Subjects: Classical Studies, Language & Linguistics

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9780989514286

Price: $70.00

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Prominent scholars celebrate Michael Meier-Brugger’s oeuvre by offering original studies primarily in Greek and Anatolian, spanning such topics as the Homeric question, newly discovered Indic names in Hittite sources, Medieval and Modern Greek phonology and much more.


Prof. Michael Meier-Brugger’s distinguished and productive career in Greek and Indo-European historical linguistics finds fitting tribute in this volume. Over two dozen prominent scholars celebrate the honorand’s oeuvre by offering original studies primarily in Greek and Anatolian, but hardly confined to those areas. Spanning such topics as the Homeric question, newly discovered Indic names in Hittite sources, Medieval and Modern Greek phonology, discourse markers, Old Irish words for ‘star’, and the Caland system, Maiores philologiae pontes contributes significantly and illuminatingly to many central questions of the field today..

  • Edited by Matthias Fritz
  • Edited by Tomoki Kitazumi
  • Edited by Marina Veksina