The precursors of Proto-Indo-European : : the Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses / / edited by Alvwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk.

• Superior document: Leiden Studies in Indo-European ; volume 21.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kloekhorst, Alvwin,; Pronk, Tijmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2019]; 2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden Studies in Indo-European; volume21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Introduction: Reconstructing Proto-Indo-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-Uralic /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004409351
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alvwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk.

In The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European some of the world’s leading experts in historical linguistics shed new light on two hypotheses about the prehistory of the Indo-European language family, the so-called Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. The Indo-Anatolian hypothesis states that the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family should be viewed as a sister language of ‘classical’ Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of all the other, non-Anatolian branches. The common ancestor of all Indo-European languages, including Anatolian, can then be called Proto-Indo-Anatolian. The Indo-Uralic hypothesis states that the closest genetic relative of Indo-European is the Uralic language family, and that both derive from a common ancestor called Proto-Indo-Uralic. The book unravels the history of these hypotheses and scrutinizes the evidence for and against them. Contributors are Stefan H. Bauhaus, Rasmus G. Bjørn, Dag Haug, Petri Kallio, Simona Klemenčič, Alwin Kloekhorst, Frederik Kortlandt, Guus Kroonen, Martin J. Kümmel, Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Alexander Lubotsky, Rosemarie Lühr, Michaël Peyrot, Tijmen Pronk, Andrei Sideltsev, Michiel de Vaan, Mikhail Zhivlov.