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Funder

• European Research Council (ERC) [Browse]
• European Research Council (ERC) [Browse]

• European Research Council (ERC) [Browse]

Series

• Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series [More in this series]
• Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.375 [More in this series]

Summary note

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe’s linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization process, this volume evaluates the lexical evidence for prehistoric language contact in multiple Indo-European subgroups, at the same time taking a critical stance to approaches that have been applied to this problem in the past.

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funded by European Research Council (ERC)

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Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Contents
• Language abbreviations
• Part I: Introduction
• 1 A methodological introduction to sub-Indo-European Europe
• Part II: Northeastern and Eastern Europe
• 2 Three pre-Balto-Slavic bird names, or: A more austere take on Oštir
• 3 Proto-Slavic forest tree names: Substratum or Proto-Indo-European origin?
• Part III: Western and Central Europe
• 4 Substrate alternations in Celtic
• 5 A bird name suffix *-anno- in Celtic and Gallo-Romance
• 6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish
• Part IV: The Mediterranean
• 7 A European substrate velar “suffix”
• 8 Prefixes in the Sardinian substrate
• 9 Substrate stratification: An argument against the unity of Pre-Greek
• 10 For the nth time: The Pre-Greek νϑ-suffix revisited
• Part V: Anatolia & the Caucasus
• 11 Alternation of diphthong and monophthong in Armenian words of substrate origin
• 12 Indo-European substrates: The problem of the Anatolian evidence
• 13 East Caucasian perspectives on the origin of the word ‘camel’ and some notes on European substrate lexemes
• List of contributors
• Index of cited forms

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ISBN

3-11-133792-8

Doi

• 10.1515/9783111337920

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