The Indo-European language family : : a phylogenetic perspective / / edited by Thomas Olander.

• VerfasserIn: Olander, Thomas, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, United Kingdom ;, New York, NY : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Thomas Olander -- Methodology in linguistic subgrouping / James Clackson -- Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping / Dariusz Piwowarczyk -- What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics / Don Ringe -- Anatolian / Alwin Kloekhorst -- Tocharian / Michaël Peyrot -- Italo-Celtic / Michael Weiss -- Italic / Michael Weiss -- Celtic / Anders Richardt Jørgensen -- Germanic / Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen -- Greek / Lucien van Beek -- Armenian / Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø -- Albanian / Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kümmel -- Blato-Slavic / Tijmen Pronk.