Indo-European Language Family - A Phylogenetic Perspective

This book has grown out of a workshop held in Copenhagen in February 2017, The Indo-European Family Tree.

List of contents

1. Introduction Thomas Olander; 2. Methodology in linguistic subgrouping James Clackson; 3. Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping Dariusz Piwowarczyk; 4. What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics Don Ringe; 5. Anatolian Alwin Kloekhorst; 6. Tocharian Michaël Peyrot; 7. Italo-Celtic Michael Weiss; 8. Italic Michael Weiss; 9. Celtic Anders Richardt Jørgensen; 10. Germanic Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen; 11. Greek Lucien van Beek; 12. Armenian Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø; 13. Albanian Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph; 14. Indo-Iranian Martin Joachim Kümmel; 15. Balto-Slavic Tijmen Pronk.

Summary

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. This book addresses the fundamental question of how these languages are related. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas (University of Copenhagen) Olander
• Assisted by: Thomas Olander (Editor), Olander Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2022
• EAN: 9781108499798
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49979-8
• No. of pages: 275
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Oral History, HISTORY / Social History, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics