Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian

Axel I. Palmér, Ph.D. (2024, Leiden University), is currently a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala). His research focuses on the origin and development of the Indo-European languages in prehistory, with papers such as Indo-European Cereal Terminology Suggests a Northwest Pontic Homeland for the Core Indo-European Languages (PLoS ONE, 2022).

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresList of abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Preliminaries: historical linguistics and the study of human prehistory1.2 Aim of the monograph1.3 State of the art: the position of Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family1.4 Research questions2 Theory and methodology2.1 Introduction2.2 Phylogenetic subgrouping2.3 Dialectal subgrouping2.4 Hybrid models2.5 Linguistic palaeontology3 Lexical isoglosses shared by Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic3.1 Introduction3.2 Isoglosses: plausible shared innovations3.3 Isoglosses: possible shared innovations3.4 Uncertain isoglosses3.5 Rejected isoglosses4 Analysis of the Indo-Slavic isogloss corpus4.1 Introduction4.2 Attestation across Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Baltic, Slavic4.3 Typological classification of isoglosses4.4 Semantic clusters in the isogloss corpus4.5 Non-exclusive isoglosses4.6 Indo-Slavic? Innovations, archaisms, and quantity of isoglosses4.7 Indo-Slavic and alternative scenarios5 The archaeology and genetics of Indo-Iranian prehistory5.1 Introduction5.2 The Indo-European homeland question5.3 The Sintashta culture as an archaeological context for Proto-Indo-Iranian5.4 The Abashevo culture as an archaeological context for Pre-Proto-Indo-Iranian5.5 From Yamnaya to Abashevo and Sintashta5.6 Integration with linguistic evidence5.7 Limitations and outlookBibliographyWord Index