Author : Alfred Bammesberger
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Languages in prehistoric Europe by : Alfred Bammesberger
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.