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Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European
1997Abstract Anyone with even the sketchiest notion of phonetics who considers the alphabet of the western languages cannot but be struck by its utter randomness. Vowels are scattered here and there in no sensible order, there is little similarity of sound in respect to placement, nor is there any sense that the more useful letters are ...
J P Mallory, D Q Adams
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2017
This chapter is a grammatical sketch of Proto-Indo-European. It describes the phonology of the language, including the system of surface contrasts; peculiarities of subsystems and individual segments; syllabification of sonorants; ablaut; rules affecting obstruents (including laryngeals); the accent system; and Auslautgesetze.
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This chapter is a grammatical sketch of Proto-Indo-European. It describes the phonology of the language, including the system of surface contrasts; peculiarities of subsystems and individual segments; syllabification of sonorants; ablaut; rules affecting obstruents (including laryngeals); the accent system; and Auslautgesetze.
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1997
Abstract There is a large number of words or roots that pertain to the general spheres of society, law, exchange, and warfare that can be reconstructed to various levels of Indo-European. Interpreting these semantic Welds in very broad terms, we can indicate those that relate to society and social organization in Table 17.1.
J P Mallory, D Q Adams
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Abstract There is a large number of words or roots that pertain to the general spheres of society, law, exchange, and warfare that can be reconstructed to various levels of Indo-European. Interpreting these semantic Welds in very broad terms, we can indicate those that relate to society and social organization in Table 17.1.
J P Mallory, D Q Adams
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Proto-Indo-European Initial *r Revisited
Iran and the Caucasus, 2021The ante-rhotic vocalic prothesis has been postulated for the history of Hittite, Greek, Armenian, and Albanian—languages, which are often believed to have no inherited PIE words beginning with a rhotic. With the advance of the laryngeal theory, the existence of the ante-rhotic prothesis has been critically revised for Hittite, Greek, and Albanian ...
Petr Kocharov, Andrey Shatskov
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2006
Abstract This chapter outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the earliest reconstructable ancestor of Ancient Greek, and of Core IE, the most solidly reconstructable stage in the prehistoric development of Greek. The language’s complex phonology, phonological rules, and inflectional morphology are all discussed in detail; so ...
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Abstract This chapter outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the earliest reconstructable ancestor of Ancient Greek, and of Core IE, the most solidly reconstructable stage in the prehistoric development of Greek. The language’s complex phonology, phonological rules, and inflectional morphology are all discussed in detail; so ...
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The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
1997Abstract This 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 ...
Mallory, James, Adams, D.Q.
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Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1969Abstract Compounds in a language have long been viewed as reflections of other syntactic patterns in that language. Some of the suggestions on relationships may now strike us as clumsy, such as those deriving compounds like Greek from imperatives plus objects.
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Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-Europeans
1997Abstract There is only one route to the reconstruction of Indo-European culture that offers any hope of reliability and that is language. Although we might compare cultural traditions, behaviour, or material culture among the different Indo-European groups, this exercise would be a very uncertain plunge into comparative ethnography or ...
J P Mallory, D Q Adams
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