LINGUIST List 17.2207

Mon Jul 31 2006

Books: Historical Linguistics/Sociolinguistics: Mallory, Adams

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org>

---

Directory         1.    Jenny Breaker, The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The Proto-Indo-European World: Mallory, Adams

---

Message 1: The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The Proto-Indo-European World: Mallory, Adams
Date: 24-Jul-2006
From: Jenny Breaker <jenny.breakeroup.com>
Subject: The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The Proto-Indo-European World: Mallory, Adams


Title: The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The
Proto-Indo-European World Published: 2006 Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199287918

Author: J. P. Mallory Author: D. Q. Adams Hardback: ISBN: 0199287910 Pages: 760 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199296685 Pages: 760 Price: U.K. £ 25.00
Abstract:

This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it wasreconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it revealsabout the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Usingrelated evidence from archaeology and natural history the authors explorethe lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, andenvironment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. They include chapters on fauna,flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and drink, space andtime, emotions, mythology, and religion, and describe the quest to discoverthe Proto-Indo-European homeland.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=20431

	-------------------------- Major Supporters --------------------------
	Blackwell Publishing	http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
	Cambridge University Press	http://us.cambridge.org
	Cascadilla Press	http://www.cascadilla.com/
	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd	http://www.continuumbooks.com
	Edinburgh University Press	http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
	Equinox Publishing Ltd.	http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	European Language Resources Association	http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php
	Georgetown University Press	http://www.press.georgetown.edu
	Hodder Arnold	http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
	John Benjamins	http://www.benjamins.com/
	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates	http://www.erlbaum.com/
	Lincom GmbH	http://www.lincom.at
	MIT Press	http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	Mouton de Gruyter	http://www.mouton-publishers.com
	Multilingual Matters	http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	Oxford University Press	http://www.oup.com/us
	Palgrave Macmillan	http://www.palgrave.com
	Rodopi	http://www.rodopi.nl/
	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)	http://www.routledge.com/
	Springer	http://www.springer.com
	---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ----------------------
	Anthropological Linguistics	http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/
	CSLI Publications	http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/
	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc. Umass	http://glsa.hypermart.net/
	International Pragmatics Assoc.	http://www.ipra.be
	Kingston Press Ltd	http://www.kingstonpress.com/
	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland	http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics	http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke	http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	Pacific Linguistics	http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
	SIL International	http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.	http://www.stjerome.co.uk
	Utrecht institute of Linguistics	http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/