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The Indo-European Language Family

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Thomas Olander, James Clackson, Dariusz Piwowarczyk, Don Ringe, Alwin Kloekhorst, Michaël Peyrot, Michael Weiss,Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen, Lucien van Beek, Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø, Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph, Martin Joachim Kümmel, Tijmen Pronk
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  • Date Published: September 2022
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108499798

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  • 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.

    • Lays out the traditional methodological background for linguistic subgrouping
    • Provides systematic and up-to-date analyses of the position of all the Indo-European branches in the linguistic family tree
    • Presents the arguments for both the lower-level and the higher-level subgrouping of the Indo-European language family
    • This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core
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    'The volume presents a very useful discussion of the methodology of linguistic subgrouping, methods of computational cladistics and the features allowing the establishment of the individual subbranches of Indo-European and speaking for or against possible higher intermediate nodes.' Daniel Kölligan, Folia Linguistica

    ‘This is an outstandingly valuable book, bringing together facts and hypotheses which have been scattered through the professional literature. It will surely become a convenient reference source and a starting-point for scholars who develop new hypotheses in this field.’ Geoffrey Sampson, The Linguist List

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    • Date Published: September 2022
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108499798
    • length: 275 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 159 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.6kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

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

  • Editor

    Thomas Olander, University of Copenhagen
    Thomas Olander is Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility (2009) and Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology (2015), and has edited several books on Indo-European linguistics and the linguistics–archaeology interface.

    Contributors

    Thomas Olander, James Clackson, Dariusz Piwowarczyk, Don Ringe, Alwin Kloekhorst, Michaël Peyrot, Michael Weiss,Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen, Lucien van Beek, Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø, Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph, Martin Joachim Kümmel, Tijmen Pronk

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