Indo-European Language and Culture - AnIntroduction 2e

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.

• Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary
  
• Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family
  
• Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language
  
• Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter
  
• Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes

Author: Benjamin W. Fortson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/01/2009
Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics #25
Pages: 576
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.64h x 6.78w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781405188968
2nd Edition