Linguistic Roots of Europe: Origin and Development of European Languages (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European) - Hardcover

Robert Mailhammer

 
9788763542098: Linguistic Roots of Europe: Origin and Development of European Languages (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8763542099 ISBN 13: 9788763542098
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK), 2014

Synopsis

Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe's languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe's linguistic prehistory and, in turn, its cultural one.

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About the Author

Robert Mailhammer is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. Theo Vennemann is emeritus professor of theoretical and German linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Birgit Annette Olsen is professor at the University of Copenhagen.

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Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8763542099
ISBN 13 
9788763542098
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320