{"product_id":"indo-european-and-the-indo-europeans-9783110147285","title":"Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans","description":" \u003ctitle\u003e\u003c\/title\u003e \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"\u003e \u003cmeta content=\"mshtml 6.00.6000.17063\" name=\"generator\"\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eProf. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors propose a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest a new 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 Proto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas V. Gamkrelidze","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48260743102715,"sku":"9783110147285","price":340.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f26c4eb5-442d-4b7d-ad8a-eb7a6970ee37.jpg?v=1779660976","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/indo-european-and-the-indo-europeans-9783110147285","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}