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.
Les mer
Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dispersals and Diversification of the Indo-European Languages  Matilde Serangeli 1 Ancient DNA, Mating Networks, and the Anatolian Split  David W. Anthony 2 Nouns and Foreign Numerals: Anatolian ‘Four’ and the Development of the PIE Decimal System  Rasmus Bjørn 3 Proto-Indo-European Continuity in Anatolian after the Split: When Hittite and Luwian Forms Require a Proto-Indo-European Source  José L. García Ramón 4 Myths of Non-Functioning Fertility Deities in Hittite and Core Indo-European  Riccardo Ginevra 5 Did Proto-Indo-European Have a Word for Wheat? Hittite šeppit(t)- Revisited and the Rise of Post-PIE Cereal Terminology  Adam Hyllested 6 And Now for Something Completely Different? Interrogating Culture and Social Change in Early Indo-European Studies  James A. Johnson 7 The Archaeology of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Anatolian: Locating the Split  Kristian Kristiansen 8 Hittite ḫandā(i)- ‘to Align, Arrange, etc.’ and PIE Metaphors for ‘(Morally) Right’  H. Craig Melchert 9 Cognacy and Computational Cladistics: Issues in Determining Lexical Cognacy for Indo-European Cladistic Research  Matthew Scarborough 10 Italo-Celtic and the Inflection of *es- ‘Be’  Peter Schrijver 11 The Anatolian Stop System and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis—Revisited  Zsolt Simon 12 Two Balkan Indo-European Loanwords  Rasmus Thorsø 13 The Inner Revolution: Old But Not That Old  Michael Weiss Index
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004414501
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
605 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
302

Biografisk notat

Matilde Serangeli, Ph.D. (2015), is Research Associate of Indo-European Studies at the FSU Jena. She has published several articles and book chapters on various aspects of comparative Indo-European linguistics.

Thomas Olander, Ph.D. (2006), DPhil (2015), is External Lecturer of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published two monographs and several articles and book chapters on comparative Indo-European linguistics.