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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

In this volume, Thomas Olander offers a historical analysis of the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic, comparing them with the corresponding endings in related languages and reconstructing the Proto

Depicts robotic inventions designed by a Scottish recluse and described in sketchbooks recently found in her abandoned castle.

Reports the habitat, diet, life cycle, and other characteristics of a variety of unusual monsters, as observed and recorded by a monstrologist.

A truly comprehensive field guide to Earth's extraterrestrial visitors that includes profiles of more than 25 previously undocumented aliens and includes information about each alien's origin, diet, d

American Dangerous is a stunningly honest book of semi-autobiographical poetry about a single, middle-aged woman’s experiences of rape, the prejudice derived from interracial love, the death of her pa

Poetry. Writing the natural world Chris Olander cracks down to the elements, his senses, the crystal beings themselves, trees, birds, fish, bear, big cats, mountains, and his central metaphor, the riv

Because classical thermodynamics evolved into many branches of science and engineering, most undergraduate courses on the subject are taught from the perspective of each area of specialization. Genera

Edited by Karen Marta. Text by Philippe Parreno.

Underground legend Lydia Lunch presents witty and provocative recipes for feeding your friends and lovers nourishing, deeply satisfying food while maintaining a hedonistic downtown lifestyle. Lydia Lu

Whatever you do and wherever you are, Velocity is coming to get you. Don't hesitate and get taken by surprise. Evolve now, rise to the challenge and create a better, smarter and more inspiring future.

Ablaut—the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found, for example, in the English verb “sing” (sing, sang, sung)—is one of the most characteristic features of the Indo-European languages. Ind

Established in 1987, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English (primarily), German and French. The journal's central topic is forme

From spiders to mummies to the Boogeyman, this wide-ranging collection of poems has a little bit of everything creepy, crawly and just plain scary; with a pinch of terror and a dash of humor, readers

The 18 papers, two in German, are from a session at the August 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, its 16th sitting, in Copenhagen. They demonstrate what can be learned about vari

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, T

Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The edito

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tochar

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tochar

Tocharian and Indo-Eu-ropean Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocha

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) publishes cen­tral topics on the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Cen­tral Asian Buddhist manuscripts dating from the second half

One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European phonology, The Sound of Indo-European brings together leading linguists working in Indo-European studies to examine both the broades

The series explores the pair of languages--Tocharian A and B--that were spoken and written in Chinese Central Asia during the first millennium AD, and their uncertain relationship to other Indo-Europe