Sub-Indo-European Europe - Problems, Methods, Results

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe's linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization process, this volume evaluates the lexical evidence for prehistoric language contact in multiple Indo-European subgroups, at the same time taking a critical stance to approaches that have been applied to this problem in the past.

About the author

Guus Kroonen, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands.

Product details

• Assisted by: Guus Kroonen (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9783111337050
• ISBN: 978-3-11-133705-0
• No. of pages: 438
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 37 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 752 g
• Illustrations: 20 b/w ill., 14 b/w tbl.
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Historische Sprachwissenschaft, Sprache, Linguistik, Linguistics, Indoeuropäische Sprachen, Sprachkontakt, Indo-European, Historical & comparative linguistics, language contact, Historical Linguistics, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Indo-Europäische Sprachen, Substratsprachen, Linguistic Substrates