Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction

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John Wiley & Sons, 7 sep 2011 - 576 pagina's
This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field.
  • Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary
  • Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family
  • Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language
  • Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter
  • Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes
 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

ProtoIndoEuropean Culture and Archaeology
18
ProtoIndoEuropean Phonology
53
Introduction
75
The Verb
88
The Noun
113
Pronouns and Other Parts of Speech
140
ProtoIndoEuropean Syntax
152
Anatolian
170
Celtic
309
Germanic
338
Armenian
382
Tocharian
400
BaltoSlavic
414
Albanian
446
Fragmentary Languages
459
Glossary
472

Indic
202
Iranian
227
Greek
248
Italic
274
Subject Index
490
Word Index
510
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction
Benjamin W. Fortson, IV
Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction
Benjamin W. Fortson
Fragmentweergave - 2010

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

3rd pl 3rd sing ablaut accent accus adjective Albanian alphabet Anatolian ancient aorist Archaic Armenian athematic attested Baltic Balto-Slavic became branches called Celtic century BC Classical clitic cognate comparative culture dative daughter languages developed dialect diphthongs ending English example forms fricative genitive Goth Gothic grammar Greek historical Hitt Hittite Homeric IE languages Indic Indo-European Indo-Iranian inflection inscriptions Iranian Iranian languages Italic labiovelars laryngeal Latin linguistic Lith Lithuanian long vowels Luvian middle modern morphemes morphology nasal neuter nominative noun Old Avestan Old Church Slavonic Old Irish Old Norse original Oscan outcome palatal paradigms participle perfect phonetic phonology phrase Phrygian plural present preserved preterite preverb pronoun Proto-Indo-Europeans reconstructed resonants Rig Veda root Sanskrit singular Slavic sound changes spoken stem stops subjunctive suffix syllable tense text sample thematic Tocharian Vedic Sanskrit Vedic Skt velars verb verbal voiced voiceless word written zero-grade

Over de auteur (2011)

Benjamin W. Fortson IV is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelIndo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
AuteurBenjamin W. Fortson, IV
Editie2
UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444359681, 9781444359688
Lengte576 pagina's
  
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