Dispersals and Diversification

Matilde Serangeli, Ph.D. (2015), is Research Associate of Indo-European Studies at the FSU Jena. She has published several articles and book chapters on various aspects of comparative Indo-European linguistics.Thomas Olander, Ph.D. (2006), DPhil (2015), is External Lecturer of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published two monographs and several articles and book chapters on comparative Indo-European linguistics.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Dispersals and Diversification of the Indo-European LanguagesMatilde Serangeli1 Ancient DNA, Mating Networks, and the Anatolian SplitDavid W. Anthony2 Nouns and Foreign Numerals: Anatolian ‘Four’ and the Development of the PIE Decimal SystemRasmus Bjørn3 Proto-Indo-European Continuity in Anatolian after the Split: When Hittite and Luwian Forms Require a Proto-Indo-European SourceJosé L. García Ramón4 Myths of Non-Functioning Fertility Deities in Hittite and Core Indo-EuropeanRiccardo Ginevra5 Did Proto-Indo-European Have a Word for Wheat? Hittite šeppit(t)- Revisited and the Rise of Post-PIE Cereal TerminologyAdam Hyllested6 And Now for Something Completely Different? Interrogating Culture and Social Change in Early Indo-European StudiesJames A. Johnson7 The Archaeology of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Anatolian: Locating the SplitKristian Kristiansen8 Hittite ḫandā(i)- ‘to Align, Arrange, etc.’ and PIE Metaphors for ‘(Morally) Right’H. Craig Melchert9 Cognacy and Computational Cladistics: Issues in Determining Lexical Cognacy for Indo-European Cladistic ResearchMatthew Scarborough10 Italo-Celtic and the Inflection of *es- ‘Be’Peter Schrijver11 The Anatolian Stop System and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis—RevisitedZsolt Simon12 Two Balkan Indo-European LoanwordsRasmus Thorsø13 The Inner Revolution: Old But Not That OldMichael WeissIndex