The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics

Author:   Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University, California) ,  Martin W. Lewis (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   338
Publication Date:   30 April 2015
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Author:   Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University, California) ,  Martin W. Lewis (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781107054530


ISBN 10:   1107054532
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   30 April 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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This book provides an excellent guide to what can and what can t be done in historical linguistics and Indo-European studies, and it offers a much-needed counterblast to much recent work in the field. James Clackson, University of Cambridge


'This book provides an excellent guide to what can and what can't be done in historical linguistics and Indo-European studies, and it offers a much-needed counterblast to much recent work in the field.' James Clackson, University of Cambridge This book provides an excellent guide to what can and what can't be done in historical linguistics and Indo-European studies, and it offers a much-needed counterblast to much recent work in the field. James Clackson, University of Cambridge


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Asya Pereltsvaig is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, California, where she teaches courses in syntax, general and historical linguistics, and languages of the world. Her main area of specialization is the syntax of Indo-European, Semitic, and Turkic languages. She is the author of Copular Sentences in Russian: A Theory of Intra-Clausal Relations (2007) and Languages of the World: An Introduction (2012). Martin W. Lewis is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford University, California, where he teaches global historical and regional geography, contemporary geopolitics, and the history of Southeast Asia. His recent research focuses on the history of geographical ideas, especially those pertaining to the division of the world. He is the author of Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900–1986 (1992) and of Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism (1992), and co-author of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997) with Kären Wigen and of Diversity amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (2012) with Lester Rowntree, Marie Price and William Wyckoff. He is also a co-editor of The Flight from Science and Reason (1997) with Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

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