Sprung from some common source: investigations into the prehistory of languages

Abstract

Introduction Sydney M. Lamb and E. Douglas Mitchell Part I. Sir William Jones and His Legacy: 1. The process of linguistics Winfred P. Lehmann 2. Jones's 'Sprung from some common source': 1786-1986 Garland Cannon Part II. Indo-European in Context: 3. Whence the Hittite, Whither and Jonesian vision? Jaan Puhvel 4. Indo-European religion and the Indo-European religious vocubulary Edgar C. Polome 5. Deities and symbols of old Europe and their survival in the Indo-European era: a synopsis Marija Gimbutas Part III. The Search for Relatives of Indo-European: 6. Some problems of Indo-European in historical perspective Joseph H. Greenberg 7. Indo-European and Afroasiatic Carleton T. Hodge 8. Full and other key words shared by Indo-European and semitic Sual Levin 9. Some recent work on the remote relations of languages Vitaly Shevoroshkin and Alexis Manaster Ramer Part IV. Linguistic Genealogy in Europe, Asia, and America: 10. Far eastern languages S?ren Egerod 11. The classification of Caucasian languages J. C. Catford 12. Recent research on the relationships of Japanese and Korean Samuel E. Martin 13. Genetic connections among the Altaic languages 14. The Amerind phylum and the prehistory of the new world Merritt Ruhlen Part V. Methods in Genetic Classification of Languages: 15. Alternatives in long-range comparison Robert Austerlitz 16. Mathematical methods of genetic classification Sheila Embleton 17. A method for assessing distant linguistic relationships Robert L. Oswalt Index.