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The Linguistic Roots of Europe
Origin and Development of European Languages
Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic prehistory and, in turn, its cultural one.
320 pages | 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 | © 2015
Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European
Language and Linguistics: General Language and Linguistics
Table of Contents
In memoriam Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (1944-2013)
Robert Mailhammer (For the Editors)
Investigating Languages in Prehistory: The Linguistic roots of Europe
Marc Vander Linden
An impossible dialogue? On the interface between archaeology, historical linguistics and comparative philology
Robert Mailhammer
Diversity vs. uniformity: Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages. A comparison with prehistoric Australia
Petri Kallio
The language contact situation in prehistoric Northeastern Europe
Joseph Salmons
Language shift and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe
Iva Welscher
Slav. Bara, lat. Mare, dt. Meer: Toponyme und Appellative mit der alteuropäischen Basis *bar-
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
Paläosardisch und Paläobaskisch
Alexandra Grieser
Wurzeln der Sprache als Ursprung von Religion? F.M. Müller und die philologische Konstrucktion von Religion zwischen Religions- und Sprachwissenschaft
Benjamin Meisnitzer
The archaeology-language conundrum: Is there still anything to be learned from etymology? Semitic influence on German, with a special consideration of Arabic and Hebrew
Reinhard G. Lehmann
,,Gesegnet sei, wer die Schrift erfand": Aus der Frühgeschichte des Alphabets
Theo Vennemann
Origins of runic writing: A comparison of theories
Robert Mailhammer (For the Editors)
Investigating Languages in Prehistory: The Linguistic roots of Europe
Marc Vander Linden
An impossible dialogue? On the interface between archaeology, historical linguistics and comparative philology
Robert Mailhammer
Diversity vs. uniformity: Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages. A comparison with prehistoric Australia
Petri Kallio
The language contact situation in prehistoric Northeastern Europe
Joseph Salmons
Language shift and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe
Iva Welscher
Slav. Bara, lat. Mare, dt. Meer: Toponyme und Appellative mit der alteuropäischen Basis *bar-
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
Paläosardisch und Paläobaskisch
Alexandra Grieser
Wurzeln der Sprache als Ursprung von Religion? F.M. Müller und die philologische Konstrucktion von Religion zwischen Religions- und Sprachwissenschaft
Benjamin Meisnitzer
The archaeology-language conundrum: Is there still anything to be learned from etymology? Semitic influence on German, with a special consideration of Arabic and Hebrew
Reinhard G. Lehmann
,,Gesegnet sei, wer die Schrift erfand": Aus der Frühgeschichte des Alphabets
Theo Vennemann
Origins of runic writing: A comparison of theories