Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology and population history of ...
Guus Kroonen +4 more
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Proto-indo-European ‘eat’ and ‘mouth’ [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2019 PIE *h1oʔ-s- (= *h1oh1-s-) ‘mouth’ is derived from PIE *h1ed- ‘to eat’, as an s-stem o-grade postverbal, assuming that *dC yields *ʔC (= *h1C), which is a well-known phenomenon of the Glottalic Theory.
Ligorio Orsat L.
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Proto-Indo-European Ergativity… Still to be Discussed [PDF]
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2008 Since Uhlenbeck's seminal article ("Agens und Patiens im Kasussystem der indogermanischen Sprachen", 1901) many scholars have accepted the hypothesis of an ergative case in ProtoIndo European (PIE) given the light it could shed on obscure facts discovered by the comparatist school inside the IE family.
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Mathematical Models of the Distribution and Change of Linguistic Information in Language Communities: a Case of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Chinese Language Communities [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 The paper presents a theoretical analysis and computer simulations of the distribution and changes of the linguistic information in two model language communities: Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Chinese. Simulations show that out of two main hypotheses of
Egorova Maia +2 more
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Fragmenta excerpti de thesauri leguminosarum: Three of the world's first domesticated plants in the Indo-European languages of Europe [PDF]
Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2015 The words denoting lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), pea (Pisum sativum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in the modern Indo-European languages show a high level of uniformity in morphology and semantics and reveal the traces of mutual borrowings among the
Mikić Aleksandar
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The words for 'star' in Indo-European and Semitic [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 This article brings together two fields: (1) the traditional study of the lexicon of Proto-Indo-European (including the material culture and belief system of the prehistoric speakers of Proto-Indo-European) and (2) the traditional study of the lexicon of
Bomhard, A.R.
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2023 The emergence of new languages out of languages in contact is a phenomenon that can be observed with a naked eye on the African terrain (see Abidjan French, Sango, Swahili for example).
Cyril Aslanov +2 more
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Mount Parnassos and the Labyrinth: From Korinthos to Knossos, from Zakynthos to Halicarnassus
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 This paper revisits the Greek *-nthos- and *-ssos/*-ttos names and analyzes them in the context of the language contacts between the Pre-Proto-Greek peoples arriving in Greece and the Pre-Greek populations already in place.
Juan Luis García Alonso
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Sulla ricostruzione degli esponenti di persona singolare nelle desinenze verbali del PIE
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E. languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type.
Alfredo Rizza
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Indo-European Linguistics, 2019 Abstract There are around sixty Indo-European roots that are (sometimes) reconstructed with a vowel *a in the scholarly literature that otherwise fully embraces the laryngeal theory. This number is extremely low compared to the number of morphemes in which the vowels that are traditionally reconstructed as *e and *o are found.
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