Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian /
During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Leiden Studies in Indo-European ;
26.
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Call Number: P57.I4
| Summary: | During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin supports an emerging picture based on ancient DNA, which shows a genetic relationship between prehistoric populations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004731851 |