Description

The "disconnects" between Hittite and the other early Indo-European languages have been extensively explored, and scholars have realized that the conventional picture of the parent language must be modified to account for the facts of Hittite. Jay Jasanoff proposes the most thorough and systematic resolution of the problem yet published, putting forth a revolutionary model of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system.

Features

• Accessible to all historical linguists and classical philologists
• Solves one of the great puzzles of the evolution of the Indo-European language family
• A revolutionary reformulation of the origins of Indo-European

Reviews

"Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that the Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fittred into any model of the dispersal of the language family, in the long run...in Hittite and the Indo-European Verb, we can see how the whole picture fits together. ...a major event"--Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

386 pages; 44 figures; ISBN13: 978-0-19-924905-3ISBN10: 0-19-924905-9

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