The Indo-European language family : a phylogenetic perspective /

"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 e...

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Other Authors: Olander, Thomas, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Table of 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