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Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like
golova 'head', acc. golovu, gen. golovy, dat. golove etc.? How come
we find similar alternations in other Slavic languages and in a
Baltic language like Lithuanian? The quest for the origin of the
so-called "mobile accent paradigms" of Baltic and Slavic leads the
reader through other Indo-European language branches such as
Indo-Iranian, Greek and Germanic, all of which are relevant to the
reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European accentuation system.
After the examination of the evidence for the reconstruction of the
Proto-Indo-European accentuation system, focus is moved to the
Baltic and Slavic accentuation systems and their relationship to
each other and to Proto-Indo-European. A comprehensive history of
research and numerous bibliographical references to earlier pieces
of scholarship throughout the book make it a useful tool for
anybody who is interested in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European
accentology. Written in a simple style and constantly aiming at
presenting old and new opinions on the various problems, the volume
may serve as an introduction to this complicated field.
Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later
European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more
fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical
linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published
independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe
underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia
consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx
from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt
pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of
(Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the
preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of genetics,
archaeology and historical linguistics to cooperate in a
constructive fashion to refine our knowledge of the Indo-European
homeland, migrations, society and language. For the
historical-comparative linguists, this opens up a wealth of
exciting perspectives and new working fields in the intersections
between linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, for the
archaeologists and geneticists, on the other hand, the linguistic
contributions help to endow the material findings with a voice from
the past. The present selection of papers illustrate the importance
of an open interdisciplinary discussion which will gradually help
us in our quest of Tracing the Indo-Europeans.
"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,
Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of
the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth
century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of
this language, "Tocharian and Indo-Eu-ropean Studies "also looks at
it in relationship to other Indo-European languages.
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.
One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European
phonology, this book brings together leading linguists working in
Indo-European studies to examine both the broadest definitions of
the group -- from minute phonetics to abstract levels of phonemics
centring on all varieties of Indo-European -- and individual
branches, with contributions on Celtic, Anatolian, Germanic,
Indo-Iranian, Italic, Armenian, and even Euphratic.
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,
Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of
the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth
century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of
this language, this volume also looks at Tocharian in relationship
to other Indo-European languages.
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,
Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of
the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth
century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of
this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at it
in relationship to other Indo-European languages.
"Tocharian and Indo-Euro""pean 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,
Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of
the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth
century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of
this language, "Tocharian and Indo-Eu""r""opean Studies" also looks
at it in relationship to other Indo-European languages. This issue
addresses topics such as the function and origin of the present
suffix "-sk," verbal endings, the words for "fear" and "perfume,"
secular documents, and Tocharian glosses in Sanskrit manuscripts.
In this book, the authors present new developments in archaeology
research. Topics include the adequacy of small-scale samplings from
ancient pottery for instrumental analysis; the problem of
phosphorous pollution in ceramic archaeological materials buried in
the ground and polluted Neolithic pottery; and the huge potential
in applying archaeological stratigraphic excavation to all kinds of
objects, such as paintings, sculptures and even archaeological
artefacts themselves.
This volume contains selected papers from a symposium on "Internal
Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results and Problems,"
which formed a subsection of the 16th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics held at the University of Copenhagen.
Internal reconstruction is what the historical linguist resorts to
when the possibilities of more traditional comparative
reconstruction have been exhausted. This is certainly the case at
the level of the protolanguage. When Proto-Indo-European has been
reconstructed on the basis of a painstaking comparative analysis of
the entire data field drawing on the full range of extant IE
languages, there are, quite often, questions still left unanswered.
Comparable methods can be applied to later stages of the language
where the immediate prehistory is not accessible or corroboration
is wanted. Today, internal reconstruction is routinely applied at
all levels of historical linguistic analysis as one of the tools
that open up the linguistic
Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological
perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the
ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss
the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from
an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new
evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate
relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European,
probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches.
Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved
problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the
postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters
discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and
with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology.
Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjorn, Jose L. Garcia
Ramon, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian
Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter
Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorso, Michael
Weiss.
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) publishes cen-tral
topics on the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B,
attested in Cen-tral Asian Buddhist manuscripts dating from the
second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological
and linguistic aspects of Tocharian and explores its relation to
the other Indo-European languages.
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.
"Indo-European Accent and Ablaut" investigates the relationship
between ablaut and accent in Indo-European languages and in their
predecessor--Proto-Indo-European. It offers a thorough overview of
the most recent scholarship on ablaut and accent by some of today's
most expert linguists. With attention to both theoretical
understandings and specific linguistic materials, the contributors
discuss an array of empirical and methodological issues in
researching these key linguistic phenomena, and in doing so they
open up new horizons for research.
This volume contains eighteen contributions to the increasingly
detailed discussion about neolithic and bronze-age Europe. It
touches on the arrival of Uralic and Indo-European settlers, on the
origins of their languages, their customs, and pantheon. The
contributors are historical linguists, archaeologists and
geneticists; some interpret actual scientific findings, others go
to the core of the methodology applied in the various subfields.
The interdisciplinary perspective on this epoch in European history
has proven particularly fruitful ever since genetics became a
reliable player in the field. The volume contains the proceedings
of the first Scandinavian conference dedicated to this approach.
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