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Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian
Series: - Leiden Studies in Indo-European, Volume: 26
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During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin supports an emerging picture based on ancient DNA, which shows a genetic relationship between prehistoric populations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Axel I. Palmér, Ph.D. (2024, Leiden University), is currently a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala). His research focuses on the origin and development of the Indo-European languages in prehistory, with papers such as Indo-European Cereal Terminology Suggests a Northwest Pontic Homeland for the Core Indo-European Languages (PLoS ONE, 2022).
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries: historical linguistics and the study of human prehistory
1.2 Aim of the monograph
1.3 State of the art: the position of Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family
1.4 Research questions
2 Theory and methodology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Phylogenetic subgrouping
2.3 Dialectal subgrouping
2.4 Hybrid models
2.5 Linguistic palaeontology
3 Lexical isoglosses shared by Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Isoglosses: plausible shared innovations
3.3 Isoglosses: possible shared innovations
3.4 Uncertain isoglosses
3.5 Rejected isoglosses
4 Analysis of the Indo-Slavic isogloss corpus
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Attestation across Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Baltic, Slavic
4.3 Typological classification of isoglosses
4.4 Semantic clusters in the isogloss corpus
4.5 Non-exclusive isoglosses
4.6 Indo-Slavic? Innovations, archaisms, and quantity of isoglosses
4.7 Indo-Slavic and alternative scenarios
5 The archaeology and genetics of Indo-Iranian prehistory
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Indo-European homeland question
5.3 The Sintashta culture as an archaeological context for Proto-Indo-Iranian
5.4 The Abashevo culture as an archaeological context for Pre-Proto-Indo-Iranian
5.5 From Yamnaya to Abashevo and Sintashta
5.6 Integration with linguistic evidence
5.7 Limitations and outlook
Bibliography
Word Index
List of Tables and Figures
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries: historical linguistics and the study of human prehistory
1.2 Aim of the monograph
1.3 State of the art: the position of Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family
1.4 Research questions
2 Theory and methodology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Phylogenetic subgrouping
2.3 Dialectal subgrouping
2.4 Hybrid models
2.5 Linguistic palaeontology
3 Lexical isoglosses shared by Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Isoglosses: plausible shared innovations
3.3 Isoglosses: possible shared innovations
3.4 Uncertain isoglosses
3.5 Rejected isoglosses
4 Analysis of the Indo-Slavic isogloss corpus
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Attestation across Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Baltic, Slavic
4.3 Typological classification of isoglosses
4.4 Semantic clusters in the isogloss corpus
4.5 Non-exclusive isoglosses
4.6 Indo-Slavic? Innovations, archaisms, and quantity of isoglosses
4.7 Indo-Slavic and alternative scenarios
5 The archaeology and genetics of Indo-Iranian prehistory
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Indo-European homeland question
5.3 The Sintashta culture as an archaeological context for Proto-Indo-Iranian
5.4 The Abashevo culture as an archaeological context for Pre-Proto-Indo-Iranian
5.5 From Yamnaya to Abashevo and Sintashta
5.6 Integration with linguistic evidence
5.7 Limitations and outlook
Bibliography
Word Index
The book would be of interest for (Indo-European) historical linguists, (Bronze Age) archaeologists, and geneticists working on Eurasia, as well as students of the same fields, both post-graduate and under-graduate.