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1 online resource |
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Introduction / Thomas Olander -- Methodology in linguistic subgrouping / James Clackson -- Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping / Dariusz Piwowarczyk -- What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics / Don Ringe -- Anatolian / Alwin Kloekhorst -- Tocharian / Michaël Peyrot -- Italo-Celtic / Michael Weiss -- Italic / Michael Weiss -- Celtic / Anders Richardt Jørgensen -- Germanic / Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen -- Greek / Lucien van Beek -- Armenian / Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø -- Albanian / Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kümmel -- Blato-Slavic / Tijmen Pronk |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2022) |
| Subject |
Indo-European languages.
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Historical linguistics.
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Computational linguistics.
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historical linguistics.
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computational linguistics.
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Computational linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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Indo-European languages
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olander, Thomas, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108758666 |
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1108758665 |
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