Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
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The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of the Indo-European languages. It clearly sets out the methods for relating the languages to one another, presents an engaging discussion of the current debates and controversies concerning their classification, and offers sample problems and suggestions for how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary, almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are clearly laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion points, and a range of exercises, this text will be an essential toolkit for all those studying historical linguistics, language typology and the Indo-European languages for the first time.
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Roots that build Pres. stems to the exclusion of (root-)Aor. stems tend to have 'atelic' actionality (activities and states, [-change-of-state]).
“It has frequently been noticed in the literature (e.g., Clackson 2007: 134, Dahl 2010: 111-16 (cf. 104), Willi 2018: 425-32; cf. Delbrück 1897: 74-82) that roots that build Pres. stems to the exclusion of (root-)Aor. stems tend to have 'atelic' actionality (i.e., they are activities and states, which have the feature [change-of-state ], as discussed above).”
From New Approach to Prohibitive Constructions in the R̥gveda and the Atharvaveda (2021) · cites this paper as Clackson 2007: 134
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- Authors
- Clackson, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Clackson, James
- ORCID
- Clackson, James
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2007-10-18
- OpenAlex
- W4251828327
- Cited by
- 672
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- 55.66
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Studies
- Keywords
- Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, language classification, comparative analysis, linguistic typology, Sanskrit, Latin language, Greeks, Russian, German, French language, Spanish language, English language
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