The Indo Europeans

Author : Birgit Anette Olsen,Thomas Olander,Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789252712

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Tracing the Indo-Europeans by Birgit Anette Olsen,Thomas Olander,Kristian Kristiansen Pdf

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of genetics, archaeology and historical linguistics to cooperate in a constructive fashion to refine our knowledge of the Indo-European homeland, migrations, society and language. For the historical-comparative linguists, this opens up a wealth of exciting perspectives and new working fields in the intersections between linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, for the archaeologists and geneticists, on the other hand, the linguistic contributions help to endow the material findings with a voice from the past. The present selection of papers illustrate the importance of an open interdisciplinary discussion which will gradually help us in our quest of Tracing the Indo-Europeans.

Author : Robert Stephen Paul Beekes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211859

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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics by Robert Stephen Paul Beekes Pdf

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture and origin of the Indo-Europeans, the speakers of the Indo-European proto-language.The reader is introduced into the nature of language change and the methods of reconstruction of older language stages, with many examples (from the Indo-European languages). A full description is given of the sound changes, which makes it possible to follow the origin of the different Indo-European languages step by step. This is followed by a discussion of the development of all the morphological categories of Proto-Indo-European. The book presents the latest in scholarly insights, like the laryngeal and glottalic theory, the accentuation, the ablaut patterns, and these are systematically integrated into the treatment. The text of this second edition has been corrected and updated by Michiel de Vaan. Sixty-six new exercises enable the student to practice the reconstruction of PIE phonology and morphology.

Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Indo-European antiquities
ISBN : 050005052X

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In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J. P. Mallory Pdf

Author : J. P. Mallory,D. Q. Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199287918

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The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World by J. P. Mallory,D. Q. Adams Pdf

The authors introduce Proto-Indo-European describing its construction and revealing the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using archaeological evidence and natural history they reconstruct the lives, passions, culture, society and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Author : Alwin Kloekhorst,Tijmen Pronk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409354

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The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European by Alwin Kloekhorst,Tijmen Pronk Pdf

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European contains sixteen contributions that offer the newest insights into the prehistory of Proto-Indo-European, taking the Indo-Anatolian and the Indo-Uralic hypotheses as their point of departure.

Author : Thomas V. Gamkrelidze,Vjaceslav V. Ivanov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110815030

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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze,Vjaceslav V. Ivanov Pdf

“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

Author : M. L. West
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191565403

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Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M. L. West Pdf

The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European. His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material. Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in Indo-European societies; metre, style, and diction; gods and other supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle narrative.

Author : Alain de Benoist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910524867

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The Indo-Europeans by Alain de Benoist Pdf

Who were the Indo-Europeans? From where did they originate? How did they live, and what did they believe? And how and why did they disperse into so many widely varied cultures? "The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland" by Alain de Benoist offers valuable clues and insights into the origins of our civilisation.

Author : Jean-Paul Demoule
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 9780197506479

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The Indo-Europeans by Jean-Paul Demoule Pdf

The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries now. But the underlying factors for this shared heritage have been fiercely debated by linguists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The leading theory, of which countless variations exist, argues that this similarity is best explained by the existence, at one given point in time and space, of a common language and corresponding population. This ancient, prehistoric, population would then have diffused across Eurasia, eventually leading to the variation observed in historical and modern times. The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West argues that despite its acceptance and use by most researchers from different disciplines, such a model is inherently flawed. This book describes how, beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans began a quest for a supposed original homeland, from which a small conquering people would one day spread out, bringing their language to Europe and parts of Asia (India, Iran, Afghanistan). This quest was often closely tied to ideological preoccupations and it was in its name that the Nazi leadership, claiming for the Germans the status of the purest Indo-Europeans (or Aryans), waged genocide. The last part of the book summarizes the current state of knowledge and current hypotheses in the fields of linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology, and genetics. The culmination of three decades of research, this book offers a sweeping survey of the historiography of the Indo-European debate and poses a devastating challenge to the Indo-European origin story at its roots.

Author : Benjamin W. Fortson, IV
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444359688

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Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin W. Fortson, IV Pdf

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

Author : Tʻamaz Gamqreliże,Вячеслав Всеволодович Иванов
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Indo-Europeans
ISBN : 3110096463

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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by Tʻamaz Gamqreliże,Вячеслав Всеволодович Иванов Pdf

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : marixverlag
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783843806565

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On the Trail of the Indo-Europeans: From Neolithic Steppe Nomads to Early Civilisations by Harald Haarmann Pdf

For more than 3000 years, Indo-European languages have been spoken from India through Persia and into Europe. Where are the origins of this language family? How and when did its different linguistic branches emerge? The renowned historical linguist Harald Haarmann provides a graphic account of what we know today about the origins of Indo-European languages and cultures and how they came to be so widely disseminated. In this impressive study, he succeeds in drawing connections between linguistic findings, archaeological discoveries and the latest research into human genetics and climate history. In addition to linguistic affinities, he shows the economic, social and religious concepts that the early speakers of Indo-European languages had in common all the way from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indus. Particular attention is devoted to the processes of assimilation with pre-Indo-European languages and civilisations. The result is a fascinating panorama of early "Indo-European globalisation" from the end of the last ice age to the early civilisations in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Persia and India.

Author : Philip Baldi
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0809310910

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An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages by Philip Baldi Pdf

This comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the spe­cialized handbooks of the individual stocks. The text begins with an introduction to the concept of the Indo-European language family, the history of its discovery, and the techniques of analysis. The introduction also gives a structural sketch of Proto-Indo-European, the parent language from which the others are descended. Baldi then devotes a chapter to each of the 11 major branches of Indo-European (Italic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Tocharian, and Anatolian). Each chapter provides an outline of the external history of the branch, its people, di­alects, and other relevant history. This out­line is followed by a structural sketch of the most important language or languages of the branch (e.g., Old Irish for Celtic, Sanskrit and Avestan for Indo-Iranian, Latin and Osco-Umbrian for Italic). The sketch also contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax of each language. There is lastly a sample text of each language containing both interlinear and free translation. In those branches where there are special issues (e.g., the relation of Italic to Celtic and Baltic to Slavic, or the problem of archaism in Hittite), additional discussions of these issues are pro­vided. Baldi's final chapter gives a brief out­line of the "minor" Indo-European lan­guages such as Illyrian, Thracian, Raetic, and Phrygian. Adding further to the usefulness of the book are extensive bibliographies, an up-to-date map showing the geographical dis­tribution of the Indo-European languages throughout the world, and a detailed family tree diagram of the members of each sub­group within the Indo-European language family and their interrelationships.

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386756

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Archaeology and Language by Colin Renfrew Pdf

In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.

Author : George Cardona,Henry M. Hoenigswald,Alfred Senn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512801200

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Indo-European and Indo-Europeans by George Cardona,Henry M. Hoenigswald,Alfred Senn Pdf

Twenty-two internationally known linguists, anthropologists, and archaeologists discuss such questions as the original home of the Indo-Europeans, their migration, religiomythic beliefs, and legal customs in the most comprehensive treatment of Indo-European culture in recent times.