Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

Description

Professor Oswald Szemerényi's Einführung 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 principles of diachronic-comparative linguistics, and the remainder of the book is a thorough and detailed analysis, according to those principles, of the phonological and morphological structure of the Indo-European group of languages. Each section of the book has a detailed bibliography, so that the student can progress from the general overview to a more detailed examination of particular topics. Oswald J. L. Szemerényi was until his retirement in 1981 Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Freiburg, having previously held the chair in Comparative Philology at University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1982. Among his other major publications are An den Quellen des lateinischen Wortschatzes (1989), Scripta Minora (4 vols and index; 1987—92), Studies in the Kinship Terminology of the Indo-European Languages (1977), Richtungen der modernen Sprachwissenschaft (Vol I, 1971; Vol II 1982), and Syncope in Greek and Indo-European and the Nature of Indo-European Accent (1964).