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By J. H. W. Penney

ISBN-10: 0199258929

ISBN-13: 9780199258925

This publication brings jointly new and unique paintings by way of 42 of the world's best students of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the globe. It indicates the breadth and the ongoing liveliness of enquiry in a space which during the last century and a part has opened many detailed home windows at the civilizations of the traditional global. the amount is a tribute to Anna Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement because the Diebold Professor of Comparative
Philology on the college of Oxford.

The book's six elements are all in favour of the early historical past of Indo-European (Part I); language use, version, and alter in historic Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European languages of Western Europe, together with Latin, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the traditional Indo-Iranian and Tocharian languages (Part V); and the historical past of Indo-European linguistics (Part VI).

Indo-European views will curiosity students and scholars of Indo-European philology, historic linguistics, classics, and the historical past of the traditional world.

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