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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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
سلاسل:
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Leiden Studies in Indo-European ;
26.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: P57.I4
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Preliminaries: historical linguistics and the study of human prehistory
- 1.2 Aim of the monograph
- 1.3 State of the art: the position of Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family
- 1.4 Research questions
- 2 Theory and methodology
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Phylogenetic subgrouping
- 2.3 Dialectal subgrouping
- 2.4 Hybrid models
- 2.5 Linguistic palaeontology
- 3 Lexical isoglosses shared by Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Isoglosses: plausible shared innovations
- 3.3 Isoglosses: possible shared innovations
- 3.4 Uncertain isoglosses
- 3.5 Rejected isoglosses
- 4 Analysis of the Indo-Slavic isogloss corpus
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Attestation across Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Baltic, Slavic
- 4.3 Typological classification of isoglosses
- 4.4 Semantic clusters in the isogloss corpus
- 4.5 Non-exclusive isoglosses
- 4.6 Indo-Slavic? Innovations, archaisms, and quantity of isoglosses
- 4.7 Indo-Slavic and alternative scenarios
- 5 The archaeology and genetics of Indo-Iranian prehistory
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The Indo-European homeland question
- 5.3 The Sintashta culture as an archaeological context for Proto-Indo-Iranian
- 5.4 The Abashevo culture as an archaeological context for Pre-Proto-Indo-Iranian
- 5.5 From Yamnaya to Abashevo and Sintashta
- 5.6 Integration with linguistic evidence
- 5.7 Limitations and outlook
- Bibliography
- Word Index.
