The Noun in Biblical Armenian
The Noun in Biblical Armenian

Author: Birgit Anette Olsen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 1144

ISBN-13: 3110801981

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

The Noun in Biblical Armenian
The Noun in Biblical Armenian

Author: Birgit Anette Olsen

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1152

ISBN-13:

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The author believes that a study of Armenian morphology and phonology will reveal a number of interesting details going straight back to the proto-language or even further. She presents a synchronic registration and historical analysis of Classical Armenian nouns, here defined as substantives, adjectives and productively derived adverbs, as attested in the fifth century Bible translation. She seeks to uncover the function, degree of productivity, and origin of the individual derivational types. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Indo-European Language and Culture
Indo-European Language and Culture

Author: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-07

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1444359681

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This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field. Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes

Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European
Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European

Author: Götz Keydana

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 3110641321

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The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition. Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any language. The present volume presents detailed grammatical descriptions of how comparison and gradation are expressed in ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge. Each chapter is structured the same way to facilitate cross-reference and (typological) comparison. The data are presented in a top-down fashion and in a format easily accessible to the linguistic community. The topics covered are similatives, equatives, comparatives, superlatives, elatives, and excessives. Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed examples of all its attested grammatical realizations. The book is an indispensable tool for typologists, historical linguists, and students of the syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.

The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic
The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic

Author: Nicholas Zair

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-08-22

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9004225390

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In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects all the words from the Celtic languages which contained a laryngeal, and identifies the regular results of the laryngeals in each phonetic environment.

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Author: Jared Klein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 311052175X

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This 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.

Dispersals and Diversification
Dispersals and Diversification

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9004416196

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Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology. Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjørn, José L. García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorsø, Michael Weiss.

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond

Author: Robert Crellin

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 9027260907

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This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.

The Sound of Indo-European
The Sound of Indo-European

Author: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 8763538385

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This contribution in this volume discuss a large variety of issues from the realm of Indo-European phonology in its broadest definition, stretching from minute phonetic to more abstract levels of phonemics and morphophonemics and centering upon all varieties of Indo-European, including the protolanguage and its recent pre-stages and, in effect, all of its post-stages till this day.

Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European
Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European

Author: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 8763507854

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With text in English & German, this book contains papers from the XVI International Conference on Historical Linguistics held at the University of Copenhagen.