Reconstructing Languages and Cultures / / ed. by Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Cardona, George,; Diebold, A. Richard,; Francis, E. D.,; Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.,; Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Hopper, Paul J.,; Jarceva, Viktorija N.,; Jasanoff, Jay H.,; Justus, Carol F.,; King, Robert D.,; Lehmann, Winfred P.,; Malkiel, Yakov,; Mithun, Marianne,; Neroznak, Vladimir P.,; Polomé, Edgar C.,; Puhvel, Jaan,; Schmidt, Karl Horst,; Sjoberg, Andrée F.,; Stepanov, Jurij S.,; Thomas, Homer L.,; Watkins, Calvert,; Winter, Werner,
• HerausgeberIn: Polomé, Edgar C.,; Winter, Werner,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 58
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (550 p.)

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- General papers on the problem of reconstruction -- Comparative linguistics -- Comparative method, internal reconstruction, typology -- Contributions from new data to the reconstruction of the proto-language -- Comparative reconstruction and typological verification: The case of Indo-European -- Old and new thoughts about the configuration of the Romance language family -- Typology and deep genetic relations in North America -- Specific papers on aspects of Indo-European reconstruction -- Armenian, Tocharian, and the "glottalic" theory -- Reconstructing morphology: the role of o-grade in Hittite and Tocharian verb inflection -- Lexical entries in major sentence types of Proto-Indo-European -- A syntactic typology of Indo-European languages (with reference to Celtic, Baltic, and Germanic languages) -- A discourse perspective on syntactic change: Text-building strategies in Early Germanic -- Indian grammatical traditions and historical linguistics -- Philology and etymology, with focus on Anatolian -- Phrygian -- Perspectives on Indo-European culture -- Archaeology and Indo-European comparative linguistics -- The traditional view of the Indo-European paleoeconomy: Contradictory evidence from anthropology and linguistics -- Comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of Indo-European culture -- The comparison of formulaic sequences -- Migration and linguistics as illustrated by Yiddish -- Indo-European and non-Indo-European -- The impact of non-Indo-European languages on Anatolian -- The impact of non-Indo-European languages on Greek and Mycenaean -- The impact of Dravidian on Indo-Aryan: An overview -- Index of subjects -- Index of names -- Index of languages, dialects, and language groups