Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic / Frederik Kortlandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kortlandt, Frederik.

Series:

Leiden Studies in Indo-European 17.

Leiden studies in Indo-European ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages.

Indo-European languages.

Uralic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 534 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The red thread which runs through this book is a quest for relative chronology of linguistic developments. The probability of a reconstruction can be judged against the background of the transitions which it implies for the linguistic system as a whole. The reconstructions are always bottom-up, never top-down. It follows that the chapters on Germanic can be read without reference to the Indo-European background and that the Indo-Uralic part of the book can be left out of consideration if one does not want to look beyond Proto-Indo-European. The initial chapters of the book offer an introduction to the background and methodology of the reconstructions with a discussion of the spread of the Indo-Europeans, the role of general linguistics in linguistic reconstruction, the nature of mixed languages, the origin of the Goths, the relations between Indo-European, Uralic and Caucasian languages, and the structure and development of Proto-Indo-European. The following chapters deal with the phonology and morphosyntax of Indo-European, Greek, Indo-Iranian and Tocharian. These are followed by a discussion of Germanic phonology, verb classes, verbal and nominal inflexion, and specific issues in English, German and Scandinavian languages. After a short treatment of Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic and Italo-Celtic topics, the volume is concluded with a discussion of Anatolian and Indo-Uralic phonology and morphosyntax. The book is of interest to students of Germanic, Indo-European and historical linguistics.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

THE SPREAD OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS

*H2o AND *oH2

1ST SG. MIDDLE *-H2

GREEK NUMERALS AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN GLOTTALIC CONSONANTS

GLOTTALIC CONSONANTS IN SINDHI AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN FINAL SYLLABLES IN TOCHARIAN

VESTJYSK STØD, ICELANDIC PREASPIRATION, AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN GLOTTALIC STOPS

THE GERMANIC FIRST CLASS OF WEAK VERBS

THE GERMANIC WEAK PRETERIT

THE INFLEXION OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN ā-STEMS IN GERMANIC

OLD HIGH GERMAN UMLAUT

THE ORIGIN OF THE OLD ENGLISH DIALECTS

THE OLD NORSE i-UMLAUT

PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN *s IN ALBANIAN

ARMENIAN ewł ‘OIL’

THE BALTIC WORD FOR ‘IN’

MORE ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF CELTIC SOUND CHANGES

INITIAL LARYNGEALS IN ANATOLIAN

EIGHT INDO-URALIC VERBS?

A PARASITOLOGICAL VIEW OF NON-CONSTRUCTIBLE SETS

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789042031364

9042031360

OCLC:

693761637

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031364 DOI