Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGEŽ DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken ...
In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,
Date Published: 1962.
Description: Ex-library copy with minimal markins, small black stain to front cover, else very good sound condition without dust jacket. 203pp. read more
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
