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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-language and Proto-culture (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs)
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The authors propse a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest an analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the "glottalic" theory); they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Paroto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, a semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described, and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus. Volume I and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I; the bibliography and indexes are published as Part II.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #3743360 in Books
- Published on: 1995-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- 1128 pages
