Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-european language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. The book opens by introducing the comparative method of linguistic reconstruction and discussing the culture and homeland of the Indo-Europeans. There follow thorough overviews of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. Each branch's development from ancient to modern times is outlined, and illustrative text samples given along with translations and etymological commentary. All chapters contain exercises and suggestions for further reading, and the volume closes with a glossary, bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes. Introduction: the comparative method and the Indo-European family Proto-Indo-European culture and archaeology proto-Indo-European phonology Proto-Indo-European morphology: introduction The verb The noun Pronouns and other parts of speech Proto-Indo-European syntax Anatolian Indo-Iranian I: Indic Indo-Iranian II: Iranian Greek Italic Celtic Germanic Armenian Tocharian Balto-Slavic Albanian Fragmentary languages. Provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, including both linguistic and cultural information. There are illustrative text samples in each language along with translations and etymological commentaries "Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material."--Jacket 1.1 All languages are similar in certain ways, but some similarities are more striking and interesting than others.