The Home of the Indo-Europeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Home of the Indo-Europeans write by Harold Herman Bender. This book was released on 1922. The Home of the Indo-Europeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Home of the Indo-Europeans
The Home of the Indo-Europeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Home of the Indo-Europeans write by Harold Herman Bender. This book was released on 1922. The Home of the Indo-Europeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages
An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages write by Philip Baldi. This book was released on 1983. An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the specialized handbooks of the individual stocks. The text begins with an introduction to the concept of the Indo-European language family, the history of its discovery, and the techniques of analysis. The introduction also gives a structural sketch of Proto-Indo-European, the parent language from which the others are descended. Baldi then devotes a chapter to each of the 11 major branches of Indo-European (Italic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Tocharian, and Anatolian). Each chapter provides an outline of the external history of the branch, its people, dialects, and other relevant history. This outline is followed by a structural sketch of the most important language or languages of the branch (e.g., Old Irish for Celtic, Sanskrit and Avestan for Indo-Iranian, Latin and Osco-Umbrian for Italic). The sketch also contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax of each language. There is lastly a sample text of each language containing both interlinear and free translation. In those branches where there are special issues (e.g., the relation of Italic to Celtic and Baltic to Slavic, or the problem of archaism in Hittite), additional discussions of these issues are provided. Baldi's final chapter gives a brief outline of the "minor" Indo-European languages such as Illyrian, Thracian, Raetic, and Phrygian. Adding further to the usefulness of the book are extensive bibliographies, an up-to-date map showing the geographical distribution of the Indo-European languages throughout the world, and a detailed family tree diagram of the members of each subgroup within the Indo-European language family and their interrelationships.
The Home of the Indo-Europeans
The Home of the Indo-Europeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Home of the Indo-Europeans write by Harold Bender. This book was released on 2013-07-16. The Home of the Indo-Europeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by a professor of Indo-Germanic Philology in Princeton University, this masterpiece of detective work pieces together evidence from the study of language, geography, history and skeletal archaeology to establish the original homeland of the Indo-European people. Professor Bender points out that while linguistic relationship is not itself sufficient proof of racial relationship, when combined with archaeological, historical and skeletal evidence, it can provide valuable indicators of common cultural ancestry. His conclusion, after clinically researching the evidence for Asia and Europe, is that the original home of the Indo-Europeans of the "great plain of central and south-eastern Europe, which embraces, roughly, the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Russia south and west of the Volga." From the introduction: "It was early evident that the speakers of these languages of Europe and Asia were the heirs of a common culture and that their several dialects were the descendants of a prehistoric tongue, the so-called Indo-European, which was not identical with that of the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, or other ancient peoples. "The Indo-Europeans emerge from the obscurity of antiquity as independent nations, scatted from the arctic circle to the equator and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Bay of Bengal . . . The Celts were not always in Britain, nor the Hellenes in Greece, nor the Hindus in India. They must all have been descended in some way from some localized prehistoric group of people who were united by a common speech and a common civilization."
Tracing the Indo-Europeans
Tracing the Indo-Europeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing the Indo-Europeans write by Birgit Anette Olsen. This book was released on 2019-08-23. Tracing the Indo-Europeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of genetics, archaeology and historical linguistics to cooperate in a constructive fashion to refine our knowledge of the Indo-European homeland, migrations, society and language. For the historical-comparative linguists, this opens up a wealth of exciting perspectives and new working fields in the intersections between linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, for the archaeologists and geneticists, on the other hand, the linguistic contributions help to endow the material findings with a voice from the past. The present selection of papers illustrate the importance of an open interdisciplinary discussion which will gradually help us in our quest of Tracing the Indo-Europeans.
