Indo-European Language and Culture
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Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

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Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Indo-European Language and Culture
  3. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Preface
  7. Preface to the Second Edition
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Illustrations
  10. Guide to the Reader
  11. 1 Introduction: The Comparative Method and the Indo-European Family
  12. 2 Proto-Indo-European Culture and Archaeology
  13. 3 Proto-Indo-European Phonology
  14. 4 Proto-Indo-European Morphology: Introduction
  15. 5 The Verb
  16. 6 The Noun
  17. 7 Pronouns and Other Parts of Speech
  18. 8 Proto-Indo-European Syntax
  19. 9 Anatolian
  20. 10 Indo-Iranian I: Indic
  21. 11 Indo-Iranian II: Iranian
  22. 12 Greek
  23. 13 Italic
  24. 14 Celtic
  25. 15 Germanic
  26. 16 Armenian
  27. 17 Tocharian
  28. 18 Balto-Slavic
  29. 19 Albanian
  30. 20 Fragmentary Languages
  31. Glossary
  32. Bibliography
  33. Subject Index
  34. Word Index