Proto-Indo-European (Indo-European)

Proto-Indo-European Sites:

Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED) Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED): Ambitious project based at the Leiden University (The Netherlands). It contains etymological data for some individual Indo-European (IE) languages, as well as for some branches of the family. (Proto-Indo-European) http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/ied/ Piotr Gasiorowski's Home Page Piotr Gasiorowski's Home Page: Survey of the author's ideas about Proto Indo-European phonetics and grammar. (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.geocities.com/caraculiambro/ Linguistics: Historical Linguistics Linguistics: Historical Linguistics: A light-hearted discussion of Indo-European and other linguistics topics, from the staff in the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA). (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html The Spread of the Indo-Europeans The Spread of the Indo-Europeans: Scholarly article by Frederik Kortlandt on the dating of the spreading of the Indo-Europeans based on information obtained from both linguistic and archaeological research. (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art111e.pdf Indo-European Roots Index Indo-European Roots Index: Comprehensive listing of the approx. 600 Indo-European roots that have derivatives in English, with links to the corresponding entries in the online edition of the "American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition" (2000). (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html Proto-Indo-European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website Proto-Indo-European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website: Basic overview of the Indo-European language family, with particular attention to its major members. From the College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. (Proto-Indo-European) http://colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/ Kurgan Culture Kurgan Culture: Detailed description of the archaeological findings associated with the "Kurgan culture", a 5th-3th millennium BC civilization north of the Black Sea, whose inhabitants are widely thought to have been the speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). I (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Kurgans.htm Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: Article by Indo-European scholar Calver Watkins, providing a survey of Indo-European linguistics, and how this field of study sheds light on the homeland of the first speakers of Indo-European. [From The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Languag (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html A Short Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics A Short Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics: Site under constant development by staff of the Department of Comparative Linguistics at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Brief description of Proto-Indo-European and of its branches. The site contains a very extensive Bibliography, classified by bran (Proto-Indo-European) http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/pie/ Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Proto-Indo-European (PIE): A good, if rather brief, overview of the Proto-Indo-European language, with outlines of some of its daughter branches. The author is Marisa Lohr, a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (England). (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal/ie/pie.html Did Indo-European Languages Spread Before Farming? Did Indo-European Languages Spread Before Farming?: Journal article by Jonathan Adams and Marcel Otte scheduled to be published in "Current Anthropology" that challenges the dominant theory placing Indo-European dispersal in the Bronze Age. (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/Indo2.html Illyrian Language Illyrian Language: A rather heterogeneous site, containing material on the history of the Illyrian language, and on the putative origins of Albanian and Avar. However, it also contains the totality of Pokorny's Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, with some corrections, a (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/ The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean: Web version of a doctoral thesis by Hans-Joachim Alscher concerning the origin of the Indo-European nominal declension and gender systems. Includes a discussion of the possible relationship between the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic language families. (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/contents.htm The Early History of Indo-European Languages The Early History of Indo-European Languages: Authors: Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov. (Scientific American, March 1990). Article by two well-known linguists, presenting a controversial theory about the origin and development of the IE languages. (Proto-Indo-European) http://www.armenianhighland.com/homeland/chronicle120.html