Fortson Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5968-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overviewof comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of theIndo-European language family, covering both linguistic andcultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than thefirst edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field.
* Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing newillustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text sampleswith translations and etymological commentary
* Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient andmodern languages of the Indo-European family
* Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society,and language
* Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions forfurther reading included in each chapter
* Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensiveword and subject indexes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fortson, Benjamin W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents.
1 Introduction: The Comparative Method and the Indo-EuropeanFamily.
2 Proto-Indo-European Culture and Archaeology.
3 Proto-Indo-European Phonology.
4 Proto-Indo-European Morphology: Introduction.
5 The Verb.
6 The Noun.
7 Pronouns and Other Parts of Speech.
8 Proto-Indo-European Syntax.
9 Anatolian.
10 Indo-Iranian I: Indic.
11 Indo-Iranian II: Iranian.
12 Greek.
13 Italic.
14 Celtic.
15 Germanic.
16 Armenian.
17 Tocharian.
18 Balto-Slavic.
19 Albanian.
20 Fragmentary Languages

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin W. Fortson IV is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.