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1	In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth more books like this by J P Mallory add to wishlist With the skill of a forensic scientist, Dr. Mallory traces the immediate origins of each of the Indo-European peoples of Europe and Asia. By comparing their languages he demonstrates their common cultural heritage, and through the technique of comparative mythology he examines their earliest beliefs. see all copies from $3.36! new only from $17.97! \| first editions
2	Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction more books like this by James Clackson add to wishlist The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides an accessible ... see all copies from $25.95! new only from $28.21! \| SVS
3	Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins more books like this by Colin Renfrew add to wishlist In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $29.99! \| first editions
4	The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots more books like this by Calvert Watkins (Revised by) add to wishlist Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® 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 ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World more books like this by J P Mallory, D Q Adams add to wishlist This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the language reveals about the people who spoke it. The Proto-Indo-Europeans lived somewhere in Europe or Asia between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago, and no text of their language survives. J. P. Mallory and Douglas Adams show how over the last two centuries scholars have reconstructed it from ... see all copies from $45.69! new only from $45.69!
6	A Garden of Words more books like this by Martha Barnette add to wishlist For language mavens, a lively exploration of the origins and development of 24 flower names, from aster to zinnia. Barnette weaves together the diverse elements that, over the centuries, have formed each word's colorful etymological history. Elegantly designed and illustrated throughout--a charming gift for language buffs and armchair gardeners. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Loom of Language more books like this by Frederick Bodmer, Lancelot Thomas Hogben add to wishlist Originally published in 1944 as one of the Primers for the Age along with Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen, this well-loved book has worked its way through many impressions and influenced the whole approach to language teaching. see all copies from $4.42! new only from $84.96! \| first editions
8	World of Words: An Illustrated History of Western Languages more books like this by Victor Stevenson add to wishlist Reveals relationships between dozens of languages. Over 140 maps and photographs, with discussions on the most current linguistic issues. '..this handsomely produced survey is that rarity, a scholarly book that is also very entertaining...' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
9	The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots more books like this by Professor Joseph Twadell Shipley add to wishlist There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In this work, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the process by which some of their offshoots have grown. ... see all copies from $29.97! new only from $29.97! \| SVS
10	Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction more books like this by Benjamin W Fortson, IV add to wishlist This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field. This is an updated, corrected, ... see all copies from $50.83! new only from $53.47! \| SVS
11 view cover	Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics more books like this by Winfred Philipp Lehmann, Lehmann Winfred add to wishlist This book presents, for the first time in English, a complete critical survey of the theory and methodology of Indo-European linguistics, from its origins two centuries ago right through to the present. Because the standard handbooks on the topic are not available in English, the theoretical approaches of the leading authorities in the field have ... see all copies from $37.06! new only from $54.65! \| SVS
12	Proto-Indo-European Phonology more books like this by Winfred P. Lehmann add to wishlist see all copies from $13.95! first editions
13	Indo European Roots Supplement Pa more books like this by American Heritage Dictionary, Calvert Watkins add to wishlist see all copies from $4.06! new only from $22.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages more books like this by Philip Baldi add to wishlist Intended for use in general courses on Indo-European languages and linguistics, this comprehensive assessment of Indo-European groups fills the long-standing need for synthesizing the vast amount of information available in specialized handbooks of the individual stocks. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $23.10! \| first editions
15 view cover	Hittite and the Indo-European Verb more books like this by Jay H Jasanoff add to wishlist "Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family." James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement \|d 05/03/2004 This book ... see all copies from $51.94! new only from $51.94! \| SVS
16 view cover	A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages more books like this by Carl Darling Buck add to wishlist Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's "Dictionary" remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms from the principal Indo-European languages. Buck ... see all copies from $31.23! new only from $52.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Familyvolume 2, Lexicon more books like this by Joseph Harold Greenberg add to wishlist The basic thesis of this book is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America. Eurasiatic is seen to consist of Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus-Manchu), Japanese-Korean-Ainu ... see all copies from $7.06! new only from $56.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics more books like this by Oswald J Szemerenyi add to wishlist Professor Oswald Szemerenyi's Einfuhrung in die vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, first published in 1970, remains the standard introduction to comparative Indo-European linguistics. It is available here in English for the first time, in a revised, enlarged, and updated fifth edition. The introductory section presents a general survey of the ... see all copies from $42.00! new only from $56.38! \| SVS
19	The World of Words more books like this by Victor Stevenson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions
20	Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations Into the Prehistory of Languages more books like this by Sydney M. Lamb (Editor), E. Douglas Mitchell (Editor), Mitchell E. Douglas (Editor) add to wishlist With its range focused on Indo-European and extending across Eurasia and into the Americas, this collection of seventeen studies investigates various aspects of the long-range comparison and classification of Indo-European and other major language groups. Some of them confront the controversial question of whether Indo-European and certain other ... see all copies from $44.97! new only from $87.51! \| first editions
21 view cover	Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic more books like this by Jane Stuart-Smith add to wishlist This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology: the development of the Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirates in the ancient languages of Italy. In so doing it tackles a central issue of historical linguistics: the plausibility of explanations for sound change. The author argues that ... see all copies from $64.37! new only from $130.27! \| SVS
22 view cover	The Foundations of Latin more books like this by Philip Baldi add to wishlist This volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral language until the end of the second century CE. As the first English-language treatment of the history of Latin and its speakers in four decades, this study fills a critical need in classical and linguistic ... see all copies from $57.42! new only from $57.42! \| SVS
23 view cover	A comparative grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic languages more books like this by Franz Bopp add to wishlist 1845. Conducted through the press by H.H. Wilson. Bopp, German philologist, conducted research in many languages and earned a great reputation as a scholar by demonstrating the relationship of the Indo-European languages in his Comparative Grammar. see all copies from $28.58! new only from $28.58! \| SVS
24 view cover	Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies more books like this by J H W Penney (Editor) add to wishlist This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient ... see all copies from $75.00! new only from $192.42!
25 view cover	Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations more books like this by James Cowles Prichard add to wishlist This work tells the eastern origin of the Celtic Nations proven by a comparison of their dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages, forming a supplement to researching into the physical history of mankind. The author presents this treatise as a supplement to his "Researches into the Physical History of Mankind." It was ... see all copies from $16.67! new only from $18.08! \| first editions \| SVS

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