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Sub-Indo-European Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Sub-Indo-European Europe

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe's linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization process, this volume evaluates the lexical evidence for prehistoric language contact in multiple Indo-European subgroups, at the same time taking a critical stance to approaches that have been applied to this problem in the past.

Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Älteren Germanistik, Band 66 (2010)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Älteren Germanistik, Band 66 (2010)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Inhalt Tette Hofstra: A.D. Kylstra 1920-2010 Elena Afros: Gothic Relative Clauses Introduced by izei and sei revisited Guus Kroonen: Færoese ta and its relevance to the Germanic Auslautsgesetze Frederik Kortlandt: Vestjysk stød again Elżbieta Adamczyk: On Morphological Restructuring in the Old English and Old Saxon Nominal Paradigms Arend Quak: Hintergründe eines altniederländischen Textes Michael P. McGlynn: Bergþór¿s Voice: Orality in the Homicide Laws of the Old Icelandic Grágás John M. Jeep: Heinrich von Veldeke¿s Eneas and the Tradition of the Alliterating Word-Pair Helmut Beifuss: Wirnts von Gravenberc Wigalois. Ein Artusroman konzipiert als dichterische Auseinandersetzung mit den politischen Wirren seiner Zeit Annelies Roeleveld: The Holy Rood in the Netherlands and North Germany. A comparative study of nine Middle Dutch and two Middle Low German recensions of the legend about the Provenance of the Cross Erika Langbroek: Die Kreuzholzlegende im `Hartebok¿ und ihre Verwandten Elly Vijfvinkel: Lehrer und Propheten im Luzerner Osterspiel Besprechungen

The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

The Indo-European dispersal inalterably shaped the Eurasian linguistic landscape. This book offers the newest insights into this dramatic prehistoric event.

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 836

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic

The Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic traces back the Germanic lexicon to its Indo-European foundations and forms a landmark study of Proto-Germanic phonology, morphology and derivation.

The Proto-Germanic n-stems.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Proto-Germanic n-stems.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-04
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

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 variation. It traces back the Germanic n-stems to their Indo-European origin, and clarifies their formal characteristics by an interaction of sound law and analogy. This book therefore is not just an attempt to account for the typology of the Germanic n-stems, but also a case study of the impact that sound change may have on the evolution of morphology and derivation.

The Sound of Indo-European
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 641

The Sound of Indo-European

This contribution in this volume discuss a large variety of issues from the realm of Indo-European phonology in its broadest definition, stretching from minute phonetic to more abstract levels of phonemics and morphophonemics and centering upon all varieties of Indo-European, including the protolanguage and its recent pre-stages and, in effect, all of its post-stages till this day.

Dispersals and Diversification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Dispersals and Diversification

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology. Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjørn, José L. García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorsø, Michael Weiss.

A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

A History of East Baltic through Language Contact

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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 East Baltic lexicon and peeling away the layers of prehistoric borrowings in the process. As well as significant contact events with known languages, the lexicon also reveals evidence of contact with unattested languages from which previous populations must have shifted.

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European contains sixteen contributions that offer the newest insights into the prehistory of Proto-Indo-European, taking the Indo-Anatolian and the Indo-Uralic hypotheses as their point of departure.

Oblique Subjects in Germanic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

Oblique Subjects in Germanic

Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.