The Indo-European Language Family : A Phylogenetic Perspective EPUB
Edited by Thomas Olander
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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, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor.
But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other?
This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question.
It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.
By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population.
This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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- Publication Date:22/09/2022
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