The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred languages and dialects including most of the major languages of Europe as well as many in West, Central and Southern Asia. Indo-European is
The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family.With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three
This comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the spe-cialized handbooks of the individual stocks.?The text begins with an in
Written forms of nearly all the oral presentations are among the 35 papers, which cover a wide range of issues and questions regarding verbs in Paleo-Indo-European and the oldest languages in the fami
In this volume, Andrew Miles Byrd analyzes the process of syllabification within Proto-Indo-European, revealing connections to a number of seemingly unrelated phonological processes in the proto-langu
Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population. This title is also a
Drawing on his dissertation, Cooper’s volume is a substantially revised and restructured version, which eschews much of the deeper theoretical material from the dissertation, but continues the theme o