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The Indo-European language family : a phylogenetic perspective / edited by Thomas Olander.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022Description: xvi, 297 sidorContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108499798
  • 9781108731522
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 410 23/swe
LOC classification:
  • P561
Other classification:
  • F
Contents:
Introduction / Thomas Olander -- Methodology in linguistic subgrouping / James Clackson -- Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping / Dariusz Piwowarczyk -- What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics / Don Ringe -- Anatolian / Alwin Kloekhorst -- Tocharian / Michaël Peyrot -- Italo-Celtic / Michael Weiss -- Italic / Michael Weiss -- Celtic / Anders Richardt Jørgensen -- Germanic / Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen -- Greek / Lucien van Beek -- Armenian / Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø -- Albanian / Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kümmel -- Blato-Slavic / Tijmen Pronk.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

This book has grown out of a workshop held in Copenhagen in February 2017, The Indo-European Family Tree.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Thomas Olander -- Methodology in linguistic subgrouping / James Clackson -- Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping / Dariusz Piwowarczyk -- What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics / Don Ringe -- Anatolian / Alwin Kloekhorst -- Tocharian / Michaël Peyrot -- Italo-Celtic / Michael Weiss -- Italic / Michael Weiss -- Celtic / Anders Richardt Jørgensen -- Germanic / Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen -- Greek / Lucien van Beek -- Armenian / Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø -- Albanian / Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kümmel -- Blato-Slavic / Tijmen Pronk.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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