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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesHistorical Comparative Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Dr. Michael Frotscher

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E-Mail: michael.frotscher[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Publications

Articles

  • Frotscher, Michael, Johanna Barðdal & Guus Kroonen. 2022. Indo-European Inroads into the Syntactic-Etymological Interface: A Reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *menkʷ- ʻlackʼ (OHG gi-mengen ʻlackʼ, Hitt. maninkuu̯ant- ʻshort, lackingʼ, Lat. mancus ʻdefectiveʼ) and its Argument Structure. Historische Sprachforschung 133(1), 62-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.62.

  • Frotscher, Michael, Corinna Scheungraber. 2020. From ditropic clitics to prefixation: on the historical development of Germanic preverbs *ga-, *bi-, Goth. dis-, OHG zar- and Goth. du, OHG za-. In: Repanšek, Luka, Harald Bichlmeier & Velizar Sadovski (eds.), vácām̐si miśrā krṇavāmahai. Proceedings of the international conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies and IWoBA XII, Ljubljana 4–7 June 2019, celebrating one hundred years of Indo-European comparative linguistics at the University of Ljubljana, 127–142. Hamburg: baar-Verlag.

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2020. The nominative/vocative plural of Vedic masculine a-stems in complex nominal expressions (with Pascal Coenen). Indogermanische Forschungen 125, 165–215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2020-009.

  • Hill, Eugen, Daniel Kölligan, Corinna Scheungraber & Michael Frotscher. 2019. The development of prefixation in time and space - Ditropic clitics and prosodic realignment in dialects of Indo-European. Transactions of the Philological Society. 1-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12153

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2017. The Reduction of Case Marking in Plural Conjunct (Adverbial) and Predicative Participles in Neo-Hittite. In Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Velizar Sadovski (eds.), In Participle We Predicate – Contributions of the Comparative and Historical Linguistics to Grammar and Semantics of Participle, 63–95. PDF

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2012 [2013]. Die luwischen Entsprechungen der hethitischen Verben des Typs dāi / tii̯anzi und ein neues Lautgesetz *oi̯ > urluwisch *u̯e. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 9/2. 137–194. PDF

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2012. The fate of PIE final *-r̥ in Vedic and Latin. In Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Birgit Anette Olsen & Jens Elemegård Rasmussen (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European. Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 73-96. PDF

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2012. The Accentuation of Old Indic Reduplicated (3rd Class) Presents (with Eugen Hill). In H. Craig Melchert (ed.), The Indo-European Verb. Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles 13–15 September 2010. Wiesbaden: Reichert. 105–114. PDF

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2011. Ittito pí-ip-pí-it: significato ed etimologia di un hapax. In Alberto Manco & Domenico Silvestri (eds.), L’etimologia. Atti del XXXV. Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia, Napoli, 21–23 ottobre 2010. (= Biblioteca della Società Italiana di Glottologia, Vol. 33). Roma: Il Calamo. 289–298. PDF

Reviews

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2017. Review of Michael Georg Maier. 2013. Hethitisch °u̯ant- und Verwan(d)tes. Untersuchungen zur Vertretung des indogermanischen Possessivsuffixes *-u̯ent- in den anatolischen Sprachen. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 107, 387-392. PDF

  • Frotscher, Michael. 2014. Review of Toshiya Tanaka. 2011. A Morphological Conflation Approach to the Historical Development of Preterite-Present Verbs: Old English, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European. Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 11/1, 67-78. PDF

Dictionary Entries

  • Diverse Lemmata in J. Friedrich & A. Kammenhuber: Hethitisches Wörterbuch. Zweite, völlig neubearbeitete Auflage auf der Grundlage der edierten hethitischen Texte. Heidelberg 2007: Universitätsverlag Winter.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

  • Workshop: Clitics in Morphology – Morphology of Clitics. Conference: Jenseits der Formen-lehre: Indogermanische Morphologie mit Grauzonen- und Schnittstellenphänomenen, Zürich, Switzerland (07–10/09/2020).
  • Conferenz: LingCologne2019: Multimodalität, Köln, Germany (06.–07. June 2019).
  • Workshop: Caland in Sicht – Property Concept Morphology aus indogermanistischer und allgemeinlinguistischer Perspektive. Conferenz: 42. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Graz, Austria (18.–20. November 2016).
  • Workshop: More Hitches in Historical Linguistics, Gent, Belgium (16.–17. March 2015).
  • Workshop: Recent advances in comparative phonology and morphology of the Early Germanic Languages. Conference: Forum for Germanic Language Studies, Cambridge (09.–11. January 2014).

Talks

  • Frotscher, Michael. Teleologie im Sprachwandel: phonologischer Wandel, CCLS Lecture Series, Köln, Germany (28. Oktober 2019).

  • Frotscher, Michael. Different mechanisms of contact-induced sound change, Workshop: Patterns of language contact within and across phylogenies. Konferenz: SLE 2019 – 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig, Germany (21.–24. August 2019).

  • Frotscher, Michael. On the Origin of Hittite Personal Pronoun šumēš ʻyou (pl.)ʼ, 100 Jahre Indogermanistik an der Universität Ljubljana – Ein “Ljubljäum”, Ljubljana, Slovenia (04.–07. Juni 2019).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Against the assumption of irregular, frequency-induced sound change: The Middle High German short verbal forms (Kurzverben) and other cases?", The regularity principle in sound change, Cologne, Germany (20. - 21. Juli 2017)

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Sind Caland-Bildungen gang und gebe? – Zu möglichen Fortsetzern des Caland-Systems im Germanischen"
    Workshop: Caland in Sicht - Property Concept Morphologie aus indogermanistischer und allgemeinlinguistischer Perspektive at the conference: 42. Österreichische Linguistiktagung , Graz (18. - 20. November 2016)

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Zur Definition der Begriffe ‘Partizip’ und ‘Verbaladjektiv’ – Geschichte der Termini und Versuch einer Neubestimmung"
    Sprachtheorie und Sprachkultur in Geschichte und Gegenwart – XVII. Internationales Kolloquium des Studienkreises ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’ (SGdS), Olmütz (21. – 23. Juli 2016).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "A new attempt at explaining the ‘give’ – ‘take’ alternation in the Indo-European languages"
    22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Neapel (27. – 31.07.2015).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Allegro-Formen oder morphologische Analogie? Der Fall mittelhochdeutscher ‘Kontraktionsverben’"
    Erfurter Kolloquium zur Historischen Phonologie: Regularität und Irregularität des Lautwandels, Erfurt (30.06.2015).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The Syntax, Semantics and Derivational History of Hittite mani(n)kuu̯ant- ‘short, close’ and its Cognates Germanic *mang(w)-ja- ‘to lack’ and Tocharian *mənkā- ‘to lack’"
    Workshop: Case, Argument Structure and Syntactic Reconstruction, Balestrand, Norway (11. – 12.06.2015).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Die Herleitung der Varianten -e des Dativ Singular und -iš des Nominativ Plural communis im Hethitischen – eine Sandhi-Erscheinung"
    1. Indogermanistisches Forschungskolloquium, Erlangen (26. – 27.03.2015).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Explaining the ‘give’ – ‘take’ alternation in the Indo-European languages"
    More Hitches in Historical Linguistics, Gent (16. – 17.03.2015).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Die geographische Verteilung der Varianten des Personennamens Ταρκονδα / Τροκονδα / Τερκονδα aus der griechischen Nebenüberlieferung Kleinasiens"
    Workshop: Onomastik at the conference: 41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Wien (06. – 08.12.2014).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The Morphosyntax of the West Germanic Present Participle and the Origin of its ja-Inflexion"
    Workshop: Adjectifs verbaux e participes dans les langues indo-européennes / Verbal Adjectives and Participles in the Indo-European Languages bei der Arbeitstagung of the Society for Indo-European Studies / Indogermanische Gesellschaft / Société des Études Indo-Européennes, Paris (24. – 26.11.2014).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "On some PIE allomorphies induced by s-mobile"
    The Sound of Indo-European 3, Opava (13. – 14.11.2014).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The semantic peculiarities of the Hittite -nt-participle and the possibility of Hurro-Urartian influence"
    Workshop: In participle we predicate – Contributi dalla linguistica storica alla grammatica e alla semantica del participio, Verona (12. – 13.03.2014).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The Morphosyntax of the Westgermanic Present Participle and the Origin of its ja-Inflexion"
    Workshop: Recent advances in comparative phonology and morphology of the Early Germanic Languages at the conference: Forum for Germanic Language Studies, Cambridge (09. – 11.01.2014).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Die hethitischen Verben des Typs dāi/tiyanzi und ihre luwischen Entsprechungen"
    Eighth International Congress of Hittitology, Warschau (05. – 09.09.2011).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "Ittito pí-ip-pí-it: significato ed etimologia di un hapax"
    35° convegno nazionale della Società Italiana di Glottologia, Neapel (21. – 23.10.2010).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The accentuation of Old Indic 3rd Class (Reduplicated) Presents" (with Eugen Hill)
    Indo-European Verb Conference (Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft), UCLA, Los Angeles (13. – 15.09.2010).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The morphology of the IE nt-stems (present participle)"
    International Summer School in Grammaticalization, Kopenhagen (18. – 21.08.2009).

  • Frotscher, Michael. "The fate of PIE final sonantic *-r̥ in Vedic and Latin"
    The Sound of Indo-European – phonetics, phonemics and morphophonemics, Kopenhagen (16. – 19.04.2009).