Mate Kapovic is Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He currently teaches courses on Indo-European phonology and morphology, Indo-European and Balto-Slavic accentuation, and general phonology.
With almost six hundred languages and dialects and around three and a half billion speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest language family in the world, encompassing most languages in Europe (nowadays also widely spoken in many former European colonies), the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
Written by an international team of experts, The Indo-European Languages offers in-depth discussions of the historical development and linguistic features of all major branches of the Indo-European languages in a comprehensive, single-volume tome. This third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest research, ensuring accuracy and relevance throughout.
This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, as well as for experienced researchers seeking an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches and Proto-Indo-European reconstruction. It will appeal both to scholars and enthusiasts of historical linguistics, language variation, language typology, and classical Indo-European languages.
List of contributors
A note on the 3rd edition
List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Indo-European languages – introduction
1 Proto-Indo-European
1 Proto-Indo-European phonology
2 Proto-Indo-European morphology
3 Proto-Indo-European syntax
2 Proto-Indo-European and language typology
3 Anatolian
4 Indo-Iranian
1 Indo-Iranian
2 Indo-Aryan
3 Iranian
5 Greek
6 Italic
7 Celtic
8 Germanic
9 Armenian
10 Tocharian
11 Balto-Slavic
1 Balto-Slavic
2 Baltic
3 Slavic
12 Albanian
The Indo-European Languages offers in-depth discussions of the historical development and linguistic features of all major branches of the Indo-European languages in one comprehensive, single volume. This third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest research, ensuring accuracy and relevance throughout.
