Indo-European Linguistics: An IntroductionThe Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of the Indo-European languages. It clearly sets out the methods for relating the languages to one another, presents an engaging discussion of the current debates and controversies concerning their classification, and offers sample problems and suggestions for how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary, almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are clearly laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion points, and a range of exercises, this text will be an essential toolkit for all those studying historical linguistics, language typology and the Indo-European languages for the first time. |
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... Gothic, Celtic and Persian could be added to the same family. Since 1786, a considerable methodology has been established to qualify and quantify Jones'notionof'affinity'betweenthe grammarsandlexiconsofthe IElanguages, and to work out a ...
... Gothic, Celtic and Persian could be added to the same family. Since 1786, a considerable methodology has been established to qualify and quantify Jones'notionof'affinity'betweenthe grammarsandlexiconsofthe IElanguages, and to work out a ...
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... (Gothic) and Slavic. In the Mediterranean area, the early adoption of literacy allows us to know of a range of IE varieties. In northern and eastern Europe, where the first written records appear considerably later, we do not know ...
... (Gothic) and Slavic. In the Mediterranean area, the early adoption of literacy allows us to know of a range of IE varieties. In northern and eastern Europe, where the first written records appear considerably later, we do not know ...
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... Gothic -m Slavic: Old Church Slavonic -mi Baltic: Lithuanian -mis PIE∗-bhis Indo-Iranian: Sanskrit -bhis Greek: Mycenaean Greek -pi (/-phi/) Celtic: Old Irish -ib Inrecentyears, theadvanceofstatistical techniques andtheuse ...
... Gothic -m Slavic: Old Church Slavonic -mi Baltic: Lithuanian -mis PIE∗-bhis Indo-Iranian: Sanskrit -bhis Greek: Mycenaean Greek -pi (/-phi/) Celtic: Old Irish -ib Inrecentyears, theadvanceofstatistical techniques andtheuse ...
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Contents
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Section 2 | 12 |
Section 3 | 27 |
Section 4 | 37 |
Section 5 | 38 |
Section 6 | 39 |
Section 7 | 50 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 9 | 90 |
Section 10 | 96 |
Section 11 | 114 |
Section 12 | 157 |
Section 13 | 187 |
Section 14 | 193 |
Section 15 | 203 |
Section 16 | 208 |
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ablaut accent accusative active alternative Anatolian aorist appears Armenian assumed attested Avestan branches clauses collective comparative comparison conjugation consonants construction correspondence daughter declension derived discussed distinction earlier early element endings English evidence example existence explain fact feminine first formations forms function further genitive Germanic give given Gothic Greek Hittite IE languages indicative Indo-Iranian Irish laryngeals later Latin lexical linguistic Lithuanian lost marked marker meaning middle morphological neuter nominative Nostratic Note nouns original paradigm parent particle particular patterns perfect person plural position possible present pronoun questions recent reconstructed refer relative replaced root s/he Sanskrit scholars seen semantic sentence separate share similar singular stage stem stop structure studies sub-group suffix taken tense texts thematic theory third Tocharian tree Vedic Sanskrit verb verbal voiced vowel word
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Page 2 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.