The Indo-European Languages

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Mate Kapović
Routledge, Jan 20, 2017 - Foreign Language Study - 650 pages

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.

With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent.

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in-depth discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic features of the Indo-European languages.

This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, but also for more experienced researchers looking for an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development.

 

Contents

List of illustrations
IndoEuropean languages introduction Mate Kapović
ProtoIndoEuropean
ProtoIndoEuropean and language typology Ranko Matasović
Anatolian H Craig Melchert
IndoIranian
IndoAryan Leonid Kulikov
Greek Rupert Thompson
Italic Rex Wallace
Celtic Patrick SimsWilliams
Germanic Joshua Bousquette and Joseph Salmons
Armenian Birgit Anette Olsen
Tocharian Douglas Q Adams
BaltoSlavic
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Mate Kapović is Assistant Professor and Chair of Comparative Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He teaches courses on Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics and Indo-European Phonology and Morphology