The Indo-European language family : a phylogenetic perspective / edited by Thomas Olander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olander, Thomas, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas Olander

Methodology in linguistic subgrouping / James Clackson

Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping / Dariusz Piwowarczyk

What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics / Don Ringe

Anatolian / Alwin Kloekhorst

Tocharian / Michaël Peyrot

Italo-Celtic / Michael Weiss

Italic / Michael Weiss

Celtic / Anders Richardt Jørgensen

Germanic / Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen

Greek / Lucien van Beek

Armenian / Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø

Albanian / Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph

Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kümmel

Blato-Slavic / Tijmen Pronk.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).

ISBN:

9781108603867

1108603866

9781108607148

1108607144

9781108758666

1108758665

OCLC:

1490383302

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access