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 each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Author(s): Thomas Olander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 315
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
1 Introduction
2 Methodology in Linguistic Subgrouping
3 Computational Approaches to Linguistic Chronology and Subgrouping
4 What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from Computational Cladistics
5 Anatolian
6 Tocharian
7 Italo-Celtic
8 Italic
9 Celtic
10 Germanic
11 Greek
12 Armenian
13 Albanian
14 Indo-Iranian
15 Balto-Slavic
Index
