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Languages in prehistoric Europe

Author : Alfred Bammesberger
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Languages in prehistoric Europe written by Alfred Bammesberger and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of writing and before the development of the Indo-European language, Europe enjoyed much greater linguistic diversity with a whole host of other languages (Hispanic, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, to name but a few) which are now defunct. This collection of nineteen papers from a conference held at the Katholische Universitat Eichstatt in Germany in 1999, examine this diversity from archaeological (two papers) and linguistic perspectives. Contributors include: Robert S P Beekes, Ivo Hajnal, Petri Kallio, Thomas Lindner, Oswald Panagl, Colin Renfrew, Klaus Strunk and Juergen Untermann. Papers in English and German.

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Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763542099
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book http://admin.mtp.hum.ku.dk/m/editbook.asp?eln=203591 written by Robert Mailhammer and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic and, in turn, cultural prehistory.

A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe

Author : Riho Grünthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789525667424
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe written by Riho Grünthal and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Languages of Europe

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469320
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Languages of Europe written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

Archaeology and Language

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521386753
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and Language written by Colin Renfrew and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-01-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.

Pre-Indo-European

Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher : Study of Man
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Indo-European written by Winfred Philipp Lehmann and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bases for Reconstructing Pre-IEFrom Pie to Pre-IeResidues in Pie that Prompt its Identification as a Reflex of an Active Languagelexical StructureSyntaxDerivational MorphologyInflectional MorphologyPhonologyThe Culture of the Pre-Indo-European SpeakersPre-IE and Possible Related Languages

Geographical Development of European Languages

Author : Grover S. Krantz
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Geographical Development of European Languages by : Grover S. Krantz

Download or read book Geographical Development of European Languages written by Grover S. Krantz and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a natural approach to reconstructing the geography of prehistoric languages in Europe. Ethnic movements are described as predictable results of just a few cultural innovations such as the origin of agriculture, empire building, and the mold-board plow - all fitted to the changing environment. All recent European language distributions are shown to follow automatically from these describable causes, and no «historical» events or personalities need to be invoked to explain any of them.

Tracing the Indo-Europeans

Author : Birgit Anette Olsen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789252733
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Tracing the Indo-Europeans by : Birgit Anette Olsen

Download or read book Tracing the Indo-Europeans written by Birgit Anette Olsen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of the European Languages

Author : Alexander Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the European Languages written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134282559
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe written by Richard Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance. With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.

Europa Vasconica - Europa Semitica

Author : Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110905701
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Europa Vasconica - Europa Semitica written by Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo-European speakers with speakers of languages related to Basque and to Semitic. These influences on the lexicon, grammar, and toponymy of the West Indo-European languages (with special focus on Germanic) are demonstrated in German and English research papers, provided here with summaries, commentaries, and a new introduction in English, and with general and etymological indexes.

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

Author : David W. Anthony
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831105
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language written by David W. Anthony and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

Lingo

Author : Gaston Dorren
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190944
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Lingo written by Gaston Dorren and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

Millennia of Language Change

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477399
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Millennia of Language Change written by Peter Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Handbook to Life in Prehistoric Europe

Author : Jane McIntosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195384768
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in Prehistoric Europe written by Jane McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of Europe's long past we have no writing, no named individuals, no recorded deeds. This means that its history is almost entirely that of the ordinary individual--the hunger-gatherer, farmer, or metallurgist--rather than the king. Evidence of privileged elites and material splendor is not lacking, however. The skills and expertise of prehistoric Europeans were often employed in the production of exquisite jewelry, elaborately woven cloth, beautifully made tools, and finely wrought weapons. Though the palaces that have attracted excavators in other lands are absent, there are few monuments elsewhere in the world to rival Europe's massive megalithic tombs or great stone circles. And though individuals preserve their anonymity and many of their secrets, modern technology has made it possible to reveal parts of their life history in astonishing detail. Handbook to Life in Prehistoric Europe gathers the results of recent archaeological discoveries and scholarly research into a single accessible volume. Organized thematically, the handbook covers all aspects of life in prehistoric Europe, including the geography of the continent, settlement, trade and transport, industry and crafts, religion, death and burial, warfare, language, the arts, and more. Complemented with more than 75 illustrations and maps, the result is a fascinating introduction to the 7,000-year period that immediately preceded the Roman Empire.

In Search of the Indo-Europeans

Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500050521
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Indo-Europeans written by J. P. Mallory and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Languages and Linguistics of Europe

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110220261
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Europe written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open publicationThe Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.