Sub-Indo-European Europe : Problems, Methods, Results.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroonen, Guus.

Contributor:

European Research Council (ERC), Funder.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.375

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2024.

Summary:

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe’s linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization process, this volume evaluates the lexical evidence for prehistoric language contact in multiple Indo-European subgroups, at the same time taking a critical stance to approaches that have been applied to this problem in the past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Language abbreviations

Part I: Introduction

1 A methodological introduction to sub-Indo-European Europe

Part II: Northeastern and Eastern Europe

2 Three pre-Balto-Slavic bird names, or: A more austere take on Oštir

3 Proto-Slavic forest tree names: Substratum or Proto-Indo-European origin?

Part III: Western and Central Europe

4 Substrate alternations in Celtic

5 A bird name suffix *-anno- in Celtic and Gallo-Romance

6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish

Part IV: The Mediterranean

7 A European substrate velar “suffix”

8 Prefixes in the Sardinian substrate

9 Substrate stratification: An argument against the unity of Pre-Greek

10 For the nth time: The Pre-Greek νϑ-suffix revisited

Part V: Anatolia & the Caucasus

11 Alternation of diphthong and monophthong in Armenian words of substrate origin

12 Indo-European substrates: The problem of the Anatolian evidence

13 East Caucasian perspectives on the origin of the word ‘camel’ and some notes on European substrate lexemes

List of contributors

Index of cited forms

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-133792-8

OCLC:

1463088361