Mate Kapović - The Indo-European Languages

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.

With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent.

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in-depth discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic features of the Indo-European languages.

This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, but also for more experienced researchers looking for an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development.

Mate Kapovi is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He currently teaches courses on Indo-European phonology, Indo-European and Balto-Slavic accentuation, Indo-European morphology, and general phonology.

Each volume in this series contains an in-depth account of the members of some of the worlds most important language families. Written by experts in each language, these accessible accounts provide detailed linguistic analysis and description. The contents are carefully structured to cover the natural system of classification: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, semantics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.

Every volume contains extensive bibliographies for each language, a detailed index and tables, and maps and examples from the languages to demonstrate the linguistic features being described. The consistent format allows comparative study, not only between the languages in each volume, but also across all the volumes in the series.

The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

Edited by Nikolaus Himmelmann & Sander Adelaar

The Bantu Languages

Edited by Derek Nurse & Grard Philippson

The Celtic Languages 2nd Edition

Edited by Martin J. Ball & Nicole Mller

The Dravidian Languages

Edited by Sanford B. Steever

The Germanic Languages

Edited by Ekkehard Knig & Johan van der Auwera

The Indo-Aryan Languages

Edited by George Cardona & Dhanesh K. Jain

The Indo-European Languages 2nd Edition

Edited by Mate Kapovi

The Iranian Languages

Edited by Gernot Windfuhr

The Languages of Japan and Korea

Edited by Nicolas Tranter

The Khoesan Languages

Edited by Rainer Vossen

The Mongolic Languages

Edited by Juha Janhunen

The Munda Languages

Edited by Gregory D.S. Anderson

The Oceanic Languages

Edited by John Lynch, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley

The Romance Languages

Edited by Martin Harris & Nigel Vincent

The Semitic Languages

Edited by Robert Hetzron

The Sino-Tibetan Languages 2nd Edition (forthcoming)

Edited by Graham Thurgood & Randy J. Lapolla

The Slavonic Languages

Edited by Bernard Comrie & Greville G. Corbett

The Tai-Kadai Languages

Edited by Anthony Diller

The Turkic Languages

Edited by va Csat & Lars Johanson

The Uralic Languages

Edited by Daniel Abondolo

Second edition

Edited by
Mate Kapovi

Second edition published 2017

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This edition adapted from the 1998 Routledge translation of Le Lingue Indoeuropee 1993 Societ editrice Il Mulino, Bologna

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Mate Kapovi

Mate Kapovi

Mate Kapovi

Thomas Krisch

Ranko Matasovi

H. Craig Melchert

Leonid Kulikov

Leonid Kulikov

Nicholas Sims-Williams

Rupert Thompson

Rex Wallace

Patrick Sims-Williams

Joshua Bousquette and Joseph Salmons

Birgit Anette Olsen

Douglas Q. Adams

Steven Young

Steven Young

Marc L. Greenberg

Alexander Rusakov

This volume is formally the 2nd edition of Ramat and Ramat 1998, itself an English translation of Ramat and Ramat 1993. Although the idea and the scope of the volume have remained much the same, the volume itself has changed a lot (the new editor included), and not only due to the necessary updates, inescapable after almost a quarter of a century has passed since the first edition.

The chapter Proto-Indo-European: Comparison and Reconstruction (1st ed.) is now replaced by three completely new chapters (Proto-Indo-European Phonology, Proto-Indo-European Morphology, and Proto-Indo-European Syntax). Instead of the chapter Sanskrit (1st ed.), there is a new chapter Indo-Aryan. Also, a separate short prechapter Indo-Iranian has been added. Instead of the chapters Latin and The Italic Languages (1st ed.), there is only the new chapter Italic now. A new prechapter Balto-Slavic has been added to precede Baltic and Slavic. A new chapter Fragmentarily Attested Indo-European Languages was planned, but the text has unfortunately not been finished on time. The chapter The Indo-Europeans: Origins and Culture (1st ed.) is completely out. The order of the chapters is new. The only authors remaining from the 1st edition are Nicholas Sims-Williams (Iranian) and Patrick Sims-Williams (Celtic). Their chapters are updated versions of their chapters in the 1st edition; all the other chapters (written by different authors) are completely new. Some of the authors from the 1st edition have, unfortunately, passed away in the meantime, like the great Calvert Watkins (19332013) and Werner Winter (19232010). New maps and illustrations were also added.