28.2264, Books: Etymology and the European Lexicon: Hansen, Whitehead, Olander, Olsen (eds.)

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From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: Etymology and the European Lexicon: Hansen, Whitehead, Olander, Olsen (eds.)

Title: Etymology and the European Lexicon 
Subtitle: Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17-22
September 2012, Copenhagen 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
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Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=83736 

Editor: Bjarne Simmelkjaer Sandgaard Hansen
Editor: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead
Editor: Thomas Olander
Editor: Birgit Anette Olsen

Hardback: ISBN:  9783954902026 Pages: 552 Price: U.S. $ 177.00

Abstract:

Etymology and the European Lexicon constitutes the proceedings of the 14th
Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, held in Copenhagen 17-22
September 2012. 

The choice of etymology as the general theme of the conference was partly
motivated by a natural wish to take up this fascinating field for new
discussion more than thirty years after the magnificent volume Lautgeschichte
und Etymologie following the 6th Fachtagung in Vienna 1978. Another reason was
the research focus characterizing the Indo-European section at the University
of Copenhagen since 2008 where we had the privilege to receive funding for a
five-year project, Roots of Europe - language, culture, and migrations.
Etymology is the obvious link between language and the outside world, and with
an increasing interest in prehistoric migrations and language contacts, we
felt confident that the conference would shed new light on the processes
eventually leading to the linguistic landscape of present-day Europe. 

Among the 43 contributions, fitting neatly within the Rahmenthema, a rich
variety of subjects are covered, from the etymological interpretation of
specific words of Indo-European extraction to lexical evidence for the
disintegration of the language family, loan word relations between
Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages and the basic concepts of
historical semantics. The languages under discussion include not only all the
Indo-European branches, but also the assumed substrata found in the lexicon
and in toponyms all over Europe.

The volume thus marks the beginning of a new, focused investigation of the
layers the European lexicon seen in a cultural context which will undoubtedly
flourish in years to come with the combined efforts of linguists, prehistoric
archaeologists and geneticists. (Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag 2017)

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Written In: English  (eng)

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