Indo-European Linguistics an introduction

Cambridge University Press. 2007.



Indo-European Linguistics

The Indo-European language family comprises several hundred

languages and dialects, including most of those spoken

in Europe, and south, south-west and central Asia. Spoken

by an estimated 3 billion people, it has the largest number

of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides

an accessible introduction to the study of the Indo-European

proto-language. It clearly sets out the methods for relating the

languages to one another, presents an engaging discussion of

the current debates and controversies concerning their classification,

and offers sample problems and suggestions for

how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary,

almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are

clearly laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion

points and a range of exercises, this text will be an essential

toolkit for all those studying historical linguistics, language

typology and the Indo-European proto-language for the first

time.