Selected Studies: Indo-European linguistics
Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9789004042285
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Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9789004042285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Baldi
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780809310913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the specialized handbooks of the individual stocks. The text begins with an introduction to the concept of the Indo-European language family, the history of its discovery, and the techniques of analysis. The introduction also gives a structural sketch of Proto-Indo-European, the parent language from which the others are descended. Baldi then devotes a chapter to each of the 11 major branches of Indo-European (Italic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Tocharian, and Anatolian). Each chapter provides an outline of the external history of the branch, its people, dialects, and other relevant history. This outline is followed by a structural sketch of the most important language or languages of the branch (e.g., Old Irish for Celtic, Sanskrit and Avestan for Indo-Iranian, Latin and Osco-Umbrian for Italic). The sketch also contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax of each language. There is lastly a sample text of each language containing both interlinear and free translation. In those branches where there are special issues (e.g., the relation of Italic to Celtic and Baltic to Slavic, or the problem of archaism in Hittite), additional discussions of these issues are provided. Baldi's final chapter gives a brief outline of the "minor" Indo-European languages such as Illyrian, Thracian, Raetic, and Phrygian. Adding further to the usefulness of the book are extensive bibliographies, an up-to-date map showing the geographical distribution of the Indo-European languages throughout the world, and a detailed family tree diagram of the members of each subgroup within the Indo-European language family and their interrelationships.
Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-08-24
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 0199287910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors introduce Proto-Indo-European describing its construction and revealing the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using archaeological evidence and natural history they reconstruct the lives, passions, culture, society and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004042285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Winfred P. Lehmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1136926836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents, for the first time in English, a complete critical survey of the theory and methodology of Indo-European linguistics, from its origins two centuries ago to the present day.
Author: Birgit Anette Olsen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2019-08-23
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1789252717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of genetics, archaeology and historical linguistics to cooperate in a constructive fashion to refine our knowledge of the Indo-European homeland, migrations, society and language. For the historical-comparative linguists, this opens up a wealth of exciting perspectives and new working fields in the intersections between linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, for the archaeologists and geneticists, on the other hand, the linguistic contributions help to endow the material findings with a voice from the past. The present selection of papers illustrate the importance of an open interdisciplinary discussion which will gradually help us in our quest of Tracing the Indo-Europeans.
Author: Michael Meier-Brügger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9783110174335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook is designed as an introduction to the field. It presents current topics and questions in Indo-European linguistics in a clear and informative manner.
Author: Jared Klein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-06-11
Total Pages: 1026
ISBN-13: 3110542439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
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: Vit Bubenik
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9027289298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.