Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans

A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text. Part II: Bibliography, Indexes

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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans

A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text. Part II: Bibliography, Indexes

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"Gamkrelidze and Ivanov's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge."
Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

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Table of contents

  1. Prefaces and Foreword
  2. Detailed contents
  3. The languages and their written sources
  4. Transliteration
  5. Abbreviations and sources
  6. Introduction — The linguistic system and the premises of diachronic linguistics
  7. Part One The Structure of Proto-Indo-European
  8. Section One: The Phonological System and Morphophonology of Proto-Indo-European
  9. Chapter One — The three Indo-European stop series: Paradigmatics and syntagmatics
  10. Chapter Two — The Indo-European points of stop articulation and the Indo-European sibilants: Paradigmatics and syntagmatics
  11. Chapter Three — The vowel system and the theory of morphophonological alternations. Sonants and laryngeals in Indo-European
  12. Chapter Four — The structure of the Indo-European root
  13. Section Two: The Grammatical Structure of Proto-Indo-European
  14. Chapter Five — Proto-Indo-European as a language of the active type
  15. Chapter Six — The grammatical syntagmatics of Proto-Indo-European in typological perspective
  16. Section Three: The Areal Organization of Proto-Indo-European
  17. Chapter Seven — The differentiation of the Indo-European linguistic region
  18. Part Two Semantic Dictionary of the Proto-Indo-European Lan¬guage and Reconstruction of the Indo-European Proto- Culture
  19. Introduction — Methods for reconstructing the semantic dictionary of a protolanguage and the linguistic paleontology of culture
  20. Section One: Semantic Dictionary of Proto-Indo-European
  21. Chapter One — The living world: Gods, people, animals
  22. Chapter Two — Indo-European conceptions of wild animals, and names for them
  23. Chapter Three — Indo-European terms for domestic animals. The economic functions of animals and their ritual and cultic role among the early Indo-Europeans
  24. Chapter Four — Indo-European plant names. Uses of plants; their ritual and cultic functions in ancient Indo-European culture
  25. Chapter Five — Geographical environment and climate. The Indo-European terms for heavenly bodies
  26. Chapter Six — Economic activity, material culture, crafts, transportation
  27. Chapter Seven — The social organization, economy, and kinship system of the ancient Indo-Europeans
  28. Chapter Eight — The connection of ancient social organization with intel¬lectual constructs and the mythological view of the world
  29. Chapter Nine — Reconstruction of Indo-European rituals. Legal and medical conceptions. The afterworld and burial rites
  30. Chapter Ten — Reconstruction of Indo-European text fragments. Fragments of poetic speech; Indo-European metrical schemes. The counting system and number symbolism
  31. Section Two: The Chronology of Proto-Indo-European. The Indo-European Homeland and Migration Routes to the Historical Ter¬ritories of the Indo-European Tribes
  32. Chapter Eleven — Proto-Indo-European in space and time, based on linguistic and culture-historical data
  33. Chapter Twelve — The migrations of the Indo-European-speaking tribes from their Near Eastern homeland to their historical territories in Eurasia
  34. Instead of an Afterword
  35. The languages and their written sources
  36. Transliterations
  37. Abbreviations
  38. Bibliography
  39. Indexes
  40. Languages and Dialects
  41. Indo-European Languages
  42. Proto-Indo-European Roots, Stems, and Affixes
  43. Proto-Indoeuropean Semantemes
  44. Anatolian Languages
  45. Hittite
  46. Sumero-Akkadian Logogramic Hittite
  47. Luwian
  48. Hieroglyphic Luwian
  49. Palaic
  50. Lycian
  51. Lydian
  52. Tocharian Languages
  53. Tocharian A
  54. Tocharian B
  55. Indo-Iranian Language
  56. Indo-Aryan Languages
  57. Sanskrit
  58. Pali
  59. Mitannian
  60. Neo-Indic Languages
  61. Nuristan Languages
  62. Dardic Languages
  63. Iranian Languages
  64. Avestan
  65. Old Persian
  66. Pehlevi
  67. Parthian
  68. Saka
  69. Sogdian
  70. Khwarezmian
  71. Scythian
  72. Ossetic
  73. Yagnobi
  74. Pashto
  75. Pamir Languages
  76. Modern Persian
  77. Tajik
  78. Kurdish
  79. Baluchi
  80. Parachi
  81. Talysh
  82. Greek
  83. Mycenean
  84. Old Macedonian
  85. Armenian
  86. Albanian
  87. Daco-Thracian
  88. Illyrian
  89. Phrygian
  90. Italic Languages
  91. Latin
  92. Faliscan
  93. Venetic
  94. Messapic
  95. Oscan
  96. Umbrian
  97. Romance Languages
  98. French
  99. Italian
  100. Spanish
  101. Rumanian
  102. Celtic Languages
  103. Old Irish
  104. Middle Irish
  105. Modern Irish
  106. Welsh
  107. Cornish
  108. Breton
  109. Gaulish
  110. Germanic Languages
  111. Proto-Germanic
  112. Old Icelandic
  113. Norwegian
  114. Swedish
  115. Danish
  116. Old English
  117. Old Frisian
  118. Old High German
  119. Old Saxon
  120. Low German Dialects
  121. English
  122. German
  123. Baltic Languages
  124. Old Prussian
  125. Lithuanian
  126. Latvian
  127. Slavic Languages
  128. Old Church Slavic and Proto-Slavic
  129. Bulgarian
  130. Serbo-Croatian
  131. Slovene
  132. Russian (Old Russian)
  133. Ukrainian
  134. Belorussian
  135. Polish
  136. Slovincian-Kashubian
  137. Czech
  138. Slovak
  139. Lower Sorbian
  140. Upper Sorbian
  141. Polabian
  142. Non-Indo-European Languages
  143. Ancient Near Eastern Languages
  144. Hattic
  145. Sumerian
  146. Elamite
  147. Hurrian
  148. Urartean
  149. Afro-Asiatic Languages
  150. Semitic Languages
  151. Proto-Semitic
  152. Akkadian
  153. Ugaritic
  154. Phoenician
  155. Ancient Hebrew
  156. Aramaic
  157. Arabic
  158. South Arabian
  159. Geez
  160. African Languages
  161. Ancient Egyptian
  162. Coptic
  163. Chadic
  164. Nubian
  165. Caucasian Languages
  166. Kartvelian Languages
  167. Proto-Kartvelian
  168. Georgian
  169. Svan
  170. Mingrelian
  171. Laz
  172. Northwest Caucasian Languages
  173. Northeast Caucasian Languages
  174. Dagestanian Languages
  175. Nakh Languages
  176. Uralic Languages
  177. Finno-Ugric Languages
  178. Finnish
  179. Veps
  180. Vote
  181. Estonian
  182. Livonian
  183. Hungarian
  184. Ostyak
  185. Vogul
  186. Komi-Permian
  187. Komi-Zhyrian
  188. Votyak
  189. Moksha-Mordvin
  190. Erzja-Mordvin
  191. Cheremis
  192. Lapp
  193. Samoyed Languages
  194. Yurak
  195. Altaic Languages
  196. Turkish
  197. Old Turkish
  198. Mongolian Languages
  199. Mongolian
  200. Tungus-Manchurian Languages
  201. Korean
  202. Japanese
  203. Dravidian Languages
  204. Austro-Asiatic Languages
  205. Burushaski
  206. Etruscan
  207. Basque
  208. Sino-Tibetan
  209. Paleoasiatic
  210. Austronesian Languages
  211. Amerindian Languages
  212. Navajo
  213. Quiliute
  214. Squamish
  215. Shuswap
  216. Australian Languages
  217. Onomastic Indexes
  218. Gods, Festivals, Mythological Beings, Heroes
  219. Proper Names
  220. Ethnonyms
  221. Hydronyms: Lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water
  222. Toponyms
  223. Species
  224. Sources