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Like Dust on the Silk Road
On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian
Inbunden, 2025
2344 kr
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"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian …
Precursors of Proto-Indo-European
The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses
Av Alwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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In The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European some of the world’s leading experts in historical linguistics shed new light on two hypotheses about the prehistory of the Indo-European language family, the so-called Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. The Indo-Anatolian hypothesis states that the …
Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek
Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache
Inbunden, 2021
3128 kr
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How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as τέτρατος beside τέταρτος originate?In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account …
Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions
Inbunden, 2025
2033 kr
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Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge studies on linguistic …
History of East Baltic through Language Contact
Inbunden, 2023
2257 kr
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The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive into the …
Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian
Inbunden, 2025
1853 kr
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During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light …
Historical Syntax of the Indo-European Languages
Part 1
Av Daniel Petit
Inbunden, 2025
2768 kr
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This volume is part of a set of two volumes. To order the set, please order each volume separately.Click here for Part 2This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues concerning the comparison of …
Historical Syntax of the Indo-European Languages
Part 2
Av Daniel Petit
Inbunden, 2025
2660 kr
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This volume is part of a set of two volumes. To order the set, please order each volume separately.Click here for Part 1This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues concerning the comparison of …
Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems
From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories
Inbunden, 2026
2693 kr
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An increasing number of historical linguists now believe that the traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system (*T, *D, *Dh) is likely flawed. Yet, despite various proposed alternatives—ranging from systems featuring glottalised or non-plosive consonants to those based on …
Variation and change in Tocharian B
Inbunden, 2008
1479 kr
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Variation and change in Tocharian B is a systematic and extensive treatment of linguistic variants attested in this most archaic of the two Tocharian languages, which are known through manuscripts from the first millennium CE found along the Northern Silk Road in Xīnjiāng, China. The precise nature …
Baltica & Balto-Slavica
Inbunden, 2009
2433 kr
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This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the …
Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic
Inbunden, 2010
3076 kr
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The red thread which runs through this book is a quest for relative chronology of linguistic developments. The probability of a reconstruction can be judged against the background of the transitions which it implies for the linguistic system as a whole. The reconstructions are always bottom-up, …
Proto-Germanic n-stems
A study in diachronic morphophonology
Av Guus Kroonen
Inbunden, 2011
2365 kr
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The n-stems are an intriguing part of Proto-Germanic morphology. Unlike any other noun class, the n-stems have roots that are characterized by systematic consonant and vowel alternations across the different Germanic dialects. This monograph represents a diachronic investigation of this root …
Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic
Inbunden, 2013
1900 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology, morphology and semantics of the loanwords serves as …
