Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans : : A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text. Part II: Bibliography, Indexes / / Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Vjaceslav V. Ivanov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.,; Ivanov, Vjaceslav V.,
• MitwirkendeR: Jakobson, Roman,; Johanna, Nichols,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 80
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie 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. Volume and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I; the Bibliography and Indexes are published as Part II.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Text. -- I-CVI -- Section One: The Phonological System and Morphophonology of Proto-Indo-European -- Chapter One — The three Indo-European stop series: Paradigmatics and syntagmatics -- Chapter Two — The Indo-European points of stop articulation and the Indo-European sibilants: Paradigmatics and syntagmatics -- Chapter Three — The vowel system and the theory of morphophonological alternations. Sonants and laryngeals in Indo-European -- Chapter Four — The structure of the Indo-European root -- Section Two: The Grammatical Structure of Proto-Indo-European -- Chapter Five — Proto-Indo-European as a language of the active type -- Chapter Six — The grammatical syntagmatics of Proto-Indo-European in typological perspective -- Section Three: The Areal Organization of Proto-Indo-European -- Chapter Seven — The differentiation of the Indo-European linguistic region -- Part II: Bibliography, Indexes -- I-XXXIV -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Languages and Dialects. Indo-European Languages -- Proto-Indo-European Roots, Stems, and Affixes -- Non-Indo-European Languages -- Onomastic Indexes -- Species -- Sources