Dispersals and Diversification - Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics Hardcover

About the Book

Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, including discussions of the methodological approaches involved.

Book Synopsis

Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology.

Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjørn, José L. García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorsø, Michael Weiss.

About the Author

Matilde Serangeli, Ph.D. (2015), is Research Associate of Indo-European Studies at the FSU Jena. She has published several articles and book chapters on various aspects of comparative Indo-European linguistics.

Thomas Olander, Ph.D. (2006), DPhil (2015), is External Lecturer of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published two monographs and several articles and book chapters on comparative Indo-European linguistics.