3rd Edition

The Indo-European Languages

Edited By Mate Kapović Copyright 2027
652 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With almost six hundred languages and dialects and around three and a half billion speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest language family in the world, encompassing most languages in Europe (nowadays also widely spoken in many former European colonies), the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.   Written by an international team of experts, The... Read more

Preface

Abbreviations

Indo-European languages – introduction

Mate Kapović

1  Proto-Indo-European

1  Proto-Indo-European phonology

Mate Kapović

2  Proto-Indo-European morphology

Mate Kapović

3  Proto-Indo-European syntax

Nikolaos Lavidas and Anastasia Tsiropina

2  Proto-Indo-European and language typology

Ranko Matasović

3  Anatolian

H. Craig Melchert

4  Indo-Iranian

1  Indo-Iranian

Leonid Kulikov

2  Indo-Aryan

Leonid Kulikov

3  Iranian

Nicholas Sims-Williams

5  Greek

Rupert Thompson

6  Italic

Rex Wallace

7  Celtic

Patrick Sims-Williams

8  Germanic

Joshua Bousquette and Joseph Salmons

9  Armenian

Birgit Anette Olsen

10  Tocharian

Douglas Q. Adams

11  Balto-Slavic

1  Balto-Slavic

Steven Young

2  Baltic

Steven Young

3  Slavic

Marc L. Greenberg

12  Albanian

Alexander Rusakov

Biography

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