This volume contains thirteen contributions on the origin of the feminine gender and its relation to the collective in the Indo-European parent language. The Indo-European daughter languages have got mostly a three-gender system, however the early attested Anatolian languages ow…
"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." "Opening with an introduction to the comparativ…
Adam Cooper examines two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure - the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters and the right-hand vocalization of sonorants - and integrates them into a single picture of the reconstructed syste…
"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 langua…
"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." "Opening with an introduction to the comparativ…
