Toward Proto-Nostratic : a New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic.

Toward Proto-Nostratic : a New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic.

This book represents the culmination of the author's work to date - it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not - nor was it ever intended to be - a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather...

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Main Author: Hopper, Paul J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory.
Subjects:
Proto-Indo-European language.
Proto-Afroasiatic language.
Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Comparative linguistics.
Nostratic hypothesis.
Comparative linguistics
Nostratic hypothesis
Proto-Afroasiatic language
Proto-Indo-European language
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Table of Contents:
  • TOWARD PROTO-NOSTRATIC
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • Table of contents
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. PREFATORY REMARKS
  • 1.2. THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
  • 1.3. THE AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES
  • 2. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN CONSONANT SYSTEM
  • 2.1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • 2.2. THE LARYNGEALS
  • 2.3. THE VOICELESS ASPIRATES
  • 2.4. THE GUTTURAL S
  • 2.5. THE EJECTIVES
  • 2.6. THE TRADITIONAL VOICED ASPIRATES
  • 2.7. THE RESONANTS
  • 2.8. CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • 3. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN VOWEL SYSTEM.
  • 3.1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • 3.2. VOWEL GRADATION
  • 3.3. CRITIQUE OF THE TRADITIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
  • 3.4. EARLIEST PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN VOWEL SYSTEM
  • 3.5. THE LONG VOWELS
  • 3.6. THE VOWELS */i/ AND */ u/
  • 3.7. ANATOLIAN
  • 3.8. THE PH0NEMICIZATI0N OF */e/ AND */o/
  • 3.9. THE DIPHTHONGS
  • 3.10. NON-APOPHONIC */e/ AND */o/
  • 3.11. DISINTEGRATING INDO-EUROPEAN */a/
  • 4. ACCENTUATION IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
  • 4.1. OLD INDIC ACCENTUATION
  • 4.2. GREEK ACCENTUATION
  • 4.3. GERMANIC ACCENTUATION
  • 4.4. SLAVIC ACCENTUATION
  • 4.5. CELTIC ACCENTUATION
  • 4.6. ITALIC ACCENTUATIO N.
  • 4.7. ARMENIAN ACCENTUATION
  • 4.8. SUMMARY/PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
  • 5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THE NON-ANATOLIAN DAUGHTER LANGUAGES
  • 5.1. DISINTEGRATING INDO-EUROPEAN
  • 5.2. INDO-IRANIAN
  • 5.3. SLAVIC
  • 5.4. BALTIC
  • 5.5. ARMENIAN
  • 5.6. GERMANIC
  • 5.7. CELTIC
  • 5.8. ITALIC
  • 5.9. GREEK
  • 5.10. TOCHARIAN
  • 5.11. ALBANIAN
  • 6. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THE ANATOLIAN DAUGHTER LANG UAGES
  • 6.1. INTRODUCTION
  • 6.2. PROTO-ANATOLIAN
  • 6.3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTO-ANATOLIAN PHONOLOGICAL SY STEM
  • 6.4. EXAMPLES OF THE VOWELS.
  • 6.5. NOTES ON THE VOWELS
  • 6.6. EXAMPLES OF THE GLIDES
  • 6.7. EXAMPLES OF THE RESONANTS
  • 6.8. NOTES ON THE RESONANTS
  • 6.9. EXAMPLES OF THE CONSONANTS
  • 6.10. NOTES ON THE CONSONANTS
  • 6.11. THE LARYNGEALS
  • 6.12. EXAMPLES OF THE LARYNGEALS
  • 6.13. THE LARYNGEALS /?, h/
  • 6.14. EXAMPLES OF /?, h/
  • 7. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-AFROASIATIC CONSONANT SYSTEM
  • 7.1. INTRODUCTION
  • 7.2. THE EMPHATICS
  • 7.3. THE LABIALS
  • 7.4. EXAMPLES OF THE LABIALS
  • 7.5. THE DENTALS
  • 7.6. EXAMPLES OF THE DENTALS
  • 7.7. THE DENTAL AFFRICATES
  • 7.8. EXAMPLES OF THE DENTAL AFFRICATES.
  • 7.9. THE PALATALIZED ALVEOLARS
  • 7.10. EXAMPLES OF THE PALATALIZED ALVEOLARS
  • 7.11. THE SIBILANTS
  • 7.12. EXAMPLES OF THE SIBILANTS
  • 7.13. THE LATERALIZED AFFRICATES
  • 7.14. EXAMPLES OF THE LATERALIZED AFFRICATES
  • 7.15. THE GUTTURALS
  • 7.16. EXAMPLES OF THE GUTTURALS
  • 7.17. GLIDES AND LIQUIDS
  • 7.18. EXAMPLES OF THE GLIDES
  • 7.19. EXAMPLES OF THE LIQUIDS
  • 7.20. GLOTTAL STOP AND GLOTTAL AND PHARYNGEAL FRICATIVES
  • 7.21. EXAMPLES OF THE GLOTTAL STOP AND GLOTTAL AND PHARYNGEAL FRICATIVES
  • 7.22. THE AFROASIATIC DAUGHTER LANGUAGES.

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