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Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives : The Eurasiatic Language Family, Volume 1, Grammar Hardcover - 2000
by Greenberg, Joseph H
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Details
- Title Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives : The Eurasiatic Language Family, Volume 1, Grammar
- Author Greenberg, Joseph H
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 2000-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # 42543799-6
- ISBN 9780804738125 / 0804738122
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.28 x 1.06 in (23.83 x 15.95 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Indo-European languages, Ural-Altaic languages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99041501
- Dewey Decimal Code 410
From the rear cover
The evidence in this volume deals in great detail with the distribution of 72 grammatical elements and the forms they take in the various Eurasiatic languages. The book also contains a historical introduction and a discussion of certain phonological phenomena. Of these phenomena, the most important is the vocal-harmony system found in many of these languages that is the ancestor of the so-called Ablaut variations of vowels in Indo-European, still seen in English in such contrasts as "come"/"came." The origin and earliest form of this system have long been a puzzle to Indo-Europeanists, but in this work they are shown to be the outcome of this original system.
An appendix deals with the vowel variation of Ainu, which resembles that of other languages in Eurasiatic. The origin of the Ainu has hitherto been considered a great mystery, and this volume shows a north Asian origin, not, as some have thought, one in Southeast Asia or the Pacific. The book also includes a Classification of Eurasiatic Languages and an Index of the Etymologies.
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2000, Page 173