This book examines the operation of laws, rules, and principles in
Indo-European, the language family which includes the Celtic,
Germanic, Italic/Romance, and Baltic/Slavic subfamilies as well as
the predominant languages of Greece, Iran, parts of Southern Asia,
and ancient Anatolia. Laws and rules are crucial to Indo-European
studies: they constrain the reconstructions and etymologies on
which knowledge of the history and prehistory of Indo-European in
particular and ancient languages more generally is based, and which
allow processes of morphological change, semantic shift, and
borrowing to be identified. But these laws and rules require
constant reassessment in the light of new evidence, theory, and
method. Through a series of case studies re-examining specific laws
and rules in the Indo-European language family, this book explores
the implications of new insights into language change andof
increasing opportunities for attention to chronology and detail in
the treatment of primary material. The languages and language
families under consideration include Celtic, Germanic, Italic and
Romance, Armenian, Greek, and Indo-Iranian languages as well as
Proto-Indo-European. Laws and Rules in Indo-European brings
together leading scholars from all over the world. It makes a
valuable contribution to the understanding of the history of
ancient languages and the reconstruction of their ancestors, as
well as to research methods.
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