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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology in Linguistic Subgrouping
- 3 Computational Approaches to Linguistic Chronology and Subgrouping
- 4 What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from Computational Cladistics
- 5 Anatolian
- 6 Tocharian
- 7 Italo-Celtic
- 8 Italic
- 9 Celtic
- 10 Germanic
- 11 Greek
- 12 Armenian
- 13 Albanian
- 14 Indo-Iranian
- 15 Balto-Slavic
- Index