The Indo-European Language Family by Thomas Olander

The Indo-European Language Family by Thomas Olander

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.

Thomas Olander is Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility (2009) and Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology (2015), and has edited several books on Indo-European linguistics and the linguistics–archaeology interface.

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ISBN 13	9781108499798
ISBN 10	1108499791
Title	The Indo-European Language Family
Author	Thomas Olander
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Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2022-09-22
Number of pages	275
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