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"The authors propse a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest an analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the ""glottalic"" theory); they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Paroto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, a semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described, and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus. Volume I and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I; the bibliography and indexes are published as Part II."

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Author:   Thomas V. Gamkrelidze ,  Vjaceslav V. Ivanov ,  Roman Jakobson ,  Nichols Johanna
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint. Reprint 2010
Volume:   80
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 7.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.001kg
ISBN:  

9783110147285

ISBN 10:   3110147289
Pages:   1128
Publication Date:   21 December 1995
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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