Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture : The Text - Hardcover

Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze; Vjaceslav V. Ivanov

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110096463 ISBN 13: 9783110096460

Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994

Synopsis

The authors propose a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest a new analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the ‘Glottalic Theory’); they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Proto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described , and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Edition details

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110096463
• ISBN 13: 9783110096460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 864
• Editor: Werner Winter