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Search inside document. Related Interests Languages. Scott Gray. Georgian Ion. Arnaud Fournet. Anonymous 7isTmailHuse. Rangothri Sreenivasa Subramanyam. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require. An essential reference source Written in a fresh and accessible style, this book focuses on the real patterns of use in a modern Europe's Indo-European language.
The book is well organized and is filled with full, clear explanations of areas of confusion and difficulty. A new approach to historic languages in Britain, this book looks at how our culture, mythology and language may have its roots in the Neolithic. Author : Benjamin W. 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.
Author : Douglas Q.. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies. There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.
Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Review of Benjamin W. Fortson: Indo-European Language and Culture. An Introduction. Zsolt Simon. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. Acta Ant. An Introduction [Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 19]. Oxford , pp. Until now,1 contemporary Indo-European linguistics lacked a reliable introductory work based on the communis opinio: introductory works were either too short and intended for, first of all, non-Indo- Europeanists ,2 out-of-date3 or highly idiosyncratic.
It shall be anticipated: he splendidly solved this task. The book consists of twenty chapters. Following an introduction ch. Bremen Oxford UTB Berlin — New York The book closes with a glossary of linguistic terms, a bibliography of cited and recommended works8 and a word-index. Every main language is also represented by a short text sample augmented by philological and linguistic comments. Another welcome feature is that the author discusses all branches in similar detail, i. In ID. Geburtstag [Archaeolingua 10].
Budapest , esp. JIES 27 [] — , although most of his oversights could have been avoided by consulting scholarly lite- rature written in German. Though the type-setting of such a book is not an easy task, the reviewer is happy to claim that there are extremely few typos in it e. Leiden—Boston , 2 , TR. Craig Melchert ed. Acta Antiqua 46 [] — Wiesbaden , Map 9. Rome , Fig. Paris and the supplements in Kadmos 41 1— and 43 Acta Ant.
Amongst scholarly journals p. Schlerath should also have been included. Schmitt are essential. Kadmos 45 93— Cambridge , HS 1— Darmstadt , 10, resp. An alternative for the etymology of lupus could be P. Kratylos 47 1—22 and 48 1— Kra- tylos 40 1—48 and 41 1— ET AL. Berlin — New York , —, —, resp. Dresden Chicago —. Wiesbaden There are altogether two problematic parts of the book: IE subgroupings and IE culture and archaeology. Such state- ments can only be based on disregarding the vast scholarly literature on internal classification.
The case of Italo-Celtic clearly shows that Fortson is unfa- miliar with the current scholarly literature on subgrouping. Rome , —, with earlier literature , for ancient Macedonian and Venetic see the main text. Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom Wiesbaden , —, to name only two classical investiga- tions.
For a tree including, say, Balkan Indo-European see M. Die Kunde 57
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