Εισαγωγή στη συγκριτική ινδοευρωπαϊκή γλωσσολογία [Comparative Indo-European linguistics. An introduction]
R. S. P. Beekes
Comparative Indo-European linguistics: An introduction is a cutting-edge introductory textbook on the study and teaching of Indo-European linguistics. In a simple and easy-to-understand manner, the author presents the principles of a science whose accomplishments radically transformed our understanding of the evolution of languages.
The book begins with an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics, followed by a comprehensive presentation of the Indo-European languages and a chapter devoted to Indo-European culture. An extensive chapter on language change comes next, in which the way languages change at the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical level is presented using a wealth of examples. The methodology of comparative linguistics is analyzed with the aid of examples taken from the Indo-European language family, to which the second and more extensive part of the book is devoted. In it, the latest views regarding the phonology and morphology of the Indo-European language are presented, together with ample material from all Indo-European languages, among which Ancient Greek plays a major role in the reconstruction of the Indo-European proto-language. The book also contains a comprehensive, thematically arranged list of references, pictures and maps, an explanatory list of terms and a word index, all useful aids to a demanding reader.
The book’s author, professor R. S. P. Beekes, is one of the most distinguished Indo-European scholars of our time, with a special interest in the study of Ancient Greek.
Full title | Εισαγωγή στη συγκριτική ινδοευρωπαϊκή γλωσσολογία [Comparative Indo-European linguistics. An introduction] |
Author | R. S. P. Beekes |
Editing / Translation | G. Papanastassiou, S. Tsolakidis & E. Deliali-Dapi (transl.) |
Edition | 2004 |
ISBN | 960-231-103-7 |
Series | |
Pages | 487 |
Size | 17x24 |
Weight | 0,916 |
Binding | Paperback |
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