
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics : An introduction. Second edition.
Title:
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics : An introduction. Second edition.
Author:
Beekes, Robert S.P.
ISBN:
9789027285003
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (440 pages)
Contents:
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- Languages -- Other abbreviations -- Transcription -- List of Exercises -- Part I. General section -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Historical and comparative linguistics -- 1.2 Comparative linguistics -- 1.3 The language families of the world -- 1.3.1 The Old World -- 1.3.2 The New World -- 2. The Indo-European Family of Languages -- 2.1 The genesis of comparative linguistics -- 2.2 The discovery of the Indo-European family of languages -- 2.3 The Indo-European languages -- 2.3.1 Indo-Iranian -- 2.3.2 Tocharian -- 2.3.3 Armenian -- 2.3.4 The Anatolian languages -- 2.3.5 Phrygian -- 2.3.6 Balto-Slavic -- 2.3.7 Thracian -- 2.3.8 Macedonian -- 2.3.9 Greek -- 2.3.10 Illyrian -- 2.3.11 Messapian -- 2.3.12 Albanian -- 2.3.13 Venetic -- 2.3.14 Italic -- 2.3.15 Celtic -- 2.3.16 Lusitanian -- 2.3.17 Germanic -- 2.3.18 Summary -- 2.4 The splitting up of Proto-Indo-European -- dialects -- 2.5 Indo-Uralic -- the Nostratic theory -- 3. The Culture and Origin of the Indo-Europeans -- 3.1 The culture of the Indo-Europeans -- 3.1.1 Material culture -- 3.1.2 Organization and religion -- 3.2 Poetry -- 3.2.1 An Indo-European poetic language -- 3.2.2 Indo-European metrics -- 3.3 The arrival of the Indo-Europeans -- 3.4 The origin of the Indo-Europeans -- 4. Sound Change -- 4.1 The sound law: The 'Ausnahmslosigkeit' -- 4.2 Sporadic sound changes -- 4.3 The sound laws: Place and time (isoglosses and relative chronology) -- 4.4 The sound law: Conditioning -- 4.5 The sound law: Formulation -- 4.6 Phonemicization of changes -- 4.7 Types of sound change and the phonemic system -- 4.8 Phonetic classification of sound changes: Consonants -- 4.8.1 Assimilation -- 4.8.2 Deletion -- 4.8.3 Insertion -- 4.8.4 Dissimilation.
4.8.5 Metathesis -- 4.9 Phonetic classification of sound changes: Short vowels -- 4.10 Phonetic classification of sound changes: Long vowels and diphthongs -- 4.11 Causes of sound change -- Language change -- 5. Analogy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Proportional analogy -- 5.3 Non-proportional analogy: Leveling -- 5.4 Replacement, secondary function and split -- 5.5 Analogy and sound law -- 5.6 Model and motive -- 5.7 The regularity of analogy: Direction -- 5.8 The regularity of analogy: Change or no change -- 5.9 The limits of analogy -- 6. Other Form-Changes -- 6.1 Additions -- 6.2 Adopted forms -- 6.3 The creation of new formations -- 7. Vocabulary Changes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The disappearance of old words and the appearance of new ones -- 7.3 Changes of meaning: Reduction or expansion of features -- 7.4 Changes of meaning: Other cases -- 7.5 Causes: Wörter und Sachen -- 7.6 Other causes -- 8. Morphological and Syntactic Change -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Morphological change -- 8.2.1 The disappearance of morphological categories -- 8.2.2 The rise of new categories -- 8.2.3 Change -- 8.3 Syntactic change -- 8.4 Causes -- 9. Internal Reconstruction -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Examples -- 9.3 Vowel alternation (Ablaut) -- 9.4 The laryngeal theory -- 9.5 The place of internal reconstruction -- Reconstruction -- 10. The Comparative Method -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Voiced stops in Avestan -- 10.3 OCS nebese - Gr. népheos -- 10.4 The passive aorist of Indo-Iranian -- 10.5 The middle participle -- Part II. Comparative Indo-European Linguistics - Phonology -- 11. The Sounds and the Accent -- 11.1 The PIE phonemic system -- 11.2 Preliminary remarks on ablaut -- 11.3 The stops -- 11.3.1 Labials and dentals -- 11.3.2 Palatals, velars and labiovelars -- 11.3.3 The three velar series -- 11.3.4 Centum and satem languages -- 11.3.5 The voiceless aspirates.
11.3.6 The glottalized consonants -- 11.3.7 Grassmann's and Bartholomae's Laws -- 11.3.8 The Germanic and the High German sound shifts -- 11.3.9 Skt. ks - Gr. kt etc. -- 11.4 PIE *s -- 11.5 The sonants -- 11.5.1 r, l, m, n, i, u as consonants -- Sievers' Law -- 11.5.2 r, l, m, n, i, u as vowels -- 11.6 The vowels -- 11.6.1 The short vowels (*e, *o) -- 11.6.2 No PIE *a -- 11.6.3 The long vowels (*ē, *ō) -- 11.7 The diphthongs -- 11.7.1 The short diphthongs -- 11.7.2 The long diphthongs -- 11.8 The laryngeals -- 11.8.1 Laryngeal between consonants -- 11.8.2 Laryngeal before consonant at the beginning of the word -- 11.8.3 Laryngeal before vowel -- 11.8.4 Laryngeal after vowel before consonant -- 11.8.5 Laryngeal after sonant -- 11.8.6 Laryngeal before sonant -- 11.9 Accentuation -- 11.9.1 Introduction -- 11.9.2 The Indo-European languages -- 11.9.3 Sanskrit, Greek and Germanic -- 11.9.4 Balto-Slavic -- 11.9.5 PIE a tone language? -- 11.10 From Proto-Indo-European to English -- 11.10.1 The consonants -- 11.10.2 The vowels -- Morphology -- 12. Introduction -- 12.1 The structure of the morphemes -- 12.1.1 The root -- 12.1.2 The suffixes -- 12.1.3 The endings -- 12.1.4 Pronouns, particles, etc. -- 12.1.5 Pre‑ and infixes -- 12.1.6 Word types -- 12.2 Ablaut -- 12.2.1 Introduction -- 12.2.2 The normal series -- 12.2.3 Ablaut with laryngeals -- 12.2.4 The place of the full grade -- 12.2.5 The function of the ablaut -- 12.3 The origin of the ablaut -- 13. The Substantive -- 13.1 Word formation -- 13.1.1 Root nouns -- 13.1.2 Derived nouns -- 13.1.3 Reduplicated nouns -- 13.1.4 Compounds -- 13.2 Inflection -- 13.2.1 The type of the Indo-European inflection -- 13.2.2 Case and number -- 13.2.3 Gender -- 13.2.4 The inflectional types -- 13.2.5 The hysterodynamic inflection -- 13.2.6 The proterodynamic inflection -- 13.2.7 The static inflection -- 13.2.8 Root nouns.
13.2.9 The o-stems -- 13.2.10 The historical relation between the inflectional types -- 13.2.11 The dual -- 14. The Adjective -- 14.1 Stems -- 14.2 Feminine and neuter -- 14.3 Inflection -- 14.4 Comparison -- 15. The Pronoun -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The non-personal pronouns -- 15.2.1 The demonstratives -- 15.2.2 The interrogative and indefinite pronouns -- 15.2.3 The relatives -- 15.3 The personal pronouns -- 15.3.1 The (non-reflexive) personal pronoun -- 15.3.2 The reflexive -- 15.3.3 The possessives -- 16. The Numerals -- 16.1 The cardinal numbers -- 16.1.1 From 'one' to 'ten' -- 16.1.2 From 'eleven' to 'nineteen' -- 16.1.3 The decimals -- 16.1.4 From 'hundred' to 'thousand' -- 16.2 The ordinal numbers -- 16.3 Collective adjectives -- 16.4 Adverbs -- 16.5 Compounds -- 17. Indeclinable Words -- 17.1 Adverbs -- 17.1.1 Introduction -- 17.1.2 Cases of substantives and adjectives -- 17.1.3 Substantives and adjectives with a suffix -- 17.1.4 Syntactic groups -- 17.1.5 The later prepositions and preverbs -- 17.2 Negation particles -- 17.3 Particles -- 17.4 Conjunctions -- 17.5 Interjections -- 18. The Verb -- 18.1 General -- 18.1.1 Introduction -- 18.1.2 The augment -- 18.1.3 Reduplication -- 18.2 The present -- 18.2.1 Stem formation -- 18.2.2 Personal endings -- 18.2.3 Inflection -- 18.3 The aorist -- 18.3.1 Stem formation -- 18.3.2 Personal endings -- 18.3.3 Inflection -- 18.4 The perfect -- 18.4.1 Stem formation -- 18.4.2 Personal endings -- 18.4.3 Inflection -- 18.5 The middle -- 18.5.1 Stem formation -- 18.5.2 Personal endings -- 18.5.3 Inflection -- 18.6 The dual -- 18.7 The static inflection -- 18.8 The moods -- 18.8.1 The indicative -- 18.8.2 The injunctive -- 18.8.3 The subjunctive -- 18.8.4 The optative -- 18.8.5 The imperative -- 18.9 The nominal forms -- 18.9.1 The participles -- 18.9.2 The verbal adjective.
18.9.3 The verbal nouns and the infinitives -- 18.10 The PIE verbal system -- 18.11 A paradigm as example -- 18.12 Schleicher's fable -- Appendix -- I. Key to the exercises -- II. Phonetics -- III. List of Terms -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- I. General introduction -- I.1 The language families of the world -- I.2 Linguistic surveys of modern Indo-European languages -- I.3 History and culture of the Indo-European peoples -- I.3.1 Material and spiritual culture of the Indo-Europeans -- I.3.2 History and religion of the IE peoples -- II. Language change -- II.1 Historiography of linguistics -- II.2 Historical linguistics -- III. Indo-European Linguistics -- III.1 Introductions, grammars and dictionaries -- III.2 The reconstruction of PIE -- 2.4 Indo-Hittite -- 2.5 Indo-Uralic, Nostratic -- 3.3 The arrival of the Indo-Europeans -- IE and non-IE substrates -- 11.3.2 & 11.3.3 Palatals, velars and labiovelars, The three velar series -- 11.3.6 Glottalized consonants -- 11.3.8 The Gmc. and HG sound shifts -- 11.3.9 Skt. ks˙- Gr. kt -- 11.5.1 Sievers' law -- 11.6.2 PIE *a -- 11.8 Laryngeals -- 11.9 Accent and tones -- 11.9.4 Balto-Slavic accentuation -- 12.1.1 Structure of roots -- 12.2 Ablaut -- 12.3 The origin of ablaut -- 13.1 Word formation -- 13.1.4 Compounds -- 13.2.2 Number and cases, case-endings -- 13.2.3 Feminine -- 13.2.4-13.2.7 Inflectional types -- 13.2.10 Historical relation of the inflectional types -- 13.2.11 Dual -- 14. Adjective -- 15. Pronouns -- 15.2.1 Demonstratives -- 15.2.3 Relatives -- 15.3 Personal pronouns -- 16. Numerals -- 17. Indeclinable words -- 18. The verb -- 18.1.3 Reduplication -- 18.2.1 Present stems -- 18.2.2 Present endings -- 18.3 Aorist -- 18.4 Perfect -- 18.5 Middle -- 18.7 Static inflexion -- 18.8 Moods -- 18.9.1 Participles -- 18.9.3 Verbal nouns -- 18.10 The PIE verbal system.
III.3 Reviews of the first edition.
Abstract:
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture and origin of the Indo-Europeans, the speakers of the Indo-European proto-language.The reader is introduced into the nature of language change and the methods of reconstruction of older language stages, with many examples (from the Indo-European languages). A full description is given of the sound changes, which makes it possible to follow the origin of the different Indo-European languages step by step. This is followed by a discussion of the development of all the morphological categories of Proto-Indo-European. The book presents the latest in scholarly insights, like the laryngeal and glottalic theory, the accentuation, the ablaut patterns, and these are systematically integrated into the treatment. The text of this second edition has been corrected and updated by Michiel de Vaan. Sixty-six new exercises enable the student to practice the reconstruction of PIE phonology and morphology.
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