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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0804764417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basic thesis of this book is that the Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America.
Author: Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1134848994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.
Author: Joseph Harold Greenberg
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0804770654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Giacalone Ramat
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-29
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1134921861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Andrew L Sihler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-11-13
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 0199706425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.
Author: Alwin Kloekhorst
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004409347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Precursors of Proto-Indo-European contains sixteen contributions that offer the newest insights into the prehistory of Proto-Indo-European, taking the Indo-Anatolian and the Indo-Uralic hypotheses as their point of departure.
Author: Peter Schrijver
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-01-08
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9004653716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780804728058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is flawed, the author presents a series of linguistic studies which demonstrate that all extant human languages share a common origin.
Author: Robert S.P. Beekes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9027285004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture and origin of the Indo-Europeans, the speakers of the Indo-European proto-language.The reader is introduced into the nature of language change and the methods of reconstruction of older language stages, with many examples (from the Indo-European languages). A full description is given of the sound changes, which makes it possible to follow the origin of the different Indo-European languages step by step. This is followed by a discussion of the development of all the morphological categories of Proto-Indo-European. The book presents the latest in scholarly insights, like the laryngeal and glottalic theory, the accentuation, the ablaut patterns, and these are systematically integrated into the treatment. The text of this second edition has been corrected and updated by Michiel de Vaan. Sixty-six new exercises enable the student to practice the reconstruction of PIE phonology and morphology.
Author: Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1134849001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal in covering this area in one volume Appeals equally to students of English and of German Presupposes no linguistic background on behalf of the reader - free of unnecessary jargon Ideal introductory sourcebook for History of Language which is often compulsory in English and German studies
