The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European WorldThis book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using related evidence from archaeology and natural history the authors explore the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. They include chapters on fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, and religion, and describe the quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland. |
Contents
Reconstructing ProtoIndoEuropean | |
The System | |
Relationships | |
A Place in Time | |
Reconstructing the ProtoIndoEuropeans | |
ProtoIndoEuropean Society | |
Space and Time | |
Number and Quantity | |
Mind Emotions and Sense Perception | |
Speech and Sound | |
Activities | |
Religion | |
Grammatical Elements | |
The Physical World | |
IndoEuropean Fauna | |
IndoEuropean Flora | |
Anatomy | |
Family and Kinship | |
Hearth and Home | |
Clothing and Textiles | |
Material Culture | |
Food and Drink | |
Comparative Mythology | |
The NeverEnding Story | |
Appendices | |
An English to ProtoIndoEuropean Wordlist | |
References | |
General Index | |
Index Verborum | |
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The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World J. P. Mallory,Douglas Q. Adams No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
Albanian Anatolian Anatolian languages animal Armenian associated Baltic e.g. Lith Baltic Lith basic bher borrowed Celtic languages Celtic OIr century cognate concept culture deities dialectal Grk e.g. Grk e.g. Hit e.g. Lat e.g. NE e.g. NWels e.g. OHG e.g. OIr e.g. Rus English European evidence Germanic e.g. OE Goth Greek groups e.g. hair Hamp Hittite homeland horse Indo Indo-Aryan Indo-European groups Indo-European languages Indo-European Studies Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian e.g. Skt Indogermanische Iranian language Irish isogloss Italic languages Italic Lat Journal of Indo-European language families language groups Latin Latv lexical linguistic loanword meaning mythology names Neolithic non-Indo-European Norse North-West noun NPers OPrus original plough possible pronouns Proto Proto-Indo proto-language Sanskrit seen semantic sheep shine Slavic e.g. OCS suffix suggests Table Tocharian Tocharian e.g. Toch Tocharian Toch underlying verb verbal root vocabulary vowel West Central region widely attested