| Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans Reprint. Reprin Edition Contributor(s): Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. (Author), Ivanov, Vjaceslav V. (Author), Jakobson, Roman (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 3110147289 ISBN-13: 9783110147285 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $304.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative |
| Dewey: 410 |
| Series: Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs |
| Physical Information: 3.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.2" (4.75 lbs) 1274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 f r Evolution re Anthropologie The authors propose a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest a new analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the 'Glottalic Theory'); they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Proto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described, and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus. Volume and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I; the Bibliography and Indexes are published as Part II. |